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

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.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

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

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.

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

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.