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.

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

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

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

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

That boy Mantle is a good one.