When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

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.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

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

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.