The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

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.

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.