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

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'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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

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

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