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

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

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

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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

The crowd makes the ballgame.