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.

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

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

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

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

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.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.