The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.