That boy Mantle is a good one.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Failure is a part of success.

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

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

Don't come home a failure.

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

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

The crowd makes the ballgame.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

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

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

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.