To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

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

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.