I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

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

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.