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.

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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

Don't come home a failure.

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