I've got to be first. ALL the time.
The crowd makes the ballgame.
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've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.