I've got to be first. ALL the time.
That boy Mantle is a good one.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.