Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

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

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.