The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

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

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

That boy Mantle is a good one.

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

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