If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.