The crowd makes the ballgame.
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.
I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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.