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

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

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

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Don't come home a failure.