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

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.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Don't come home a failure.