When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
I've got to be first. ALL the time.