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

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

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

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.