Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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.

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

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

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

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.