He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

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

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

That boy Mantle is a good one.

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

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.

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