I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

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.

Don't come home a failure.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.