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.

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

Don't come home a failure.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

The crowd makes the ballgame.