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.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

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've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

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

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.