The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.