I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?
I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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.