I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

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

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

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

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.