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

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.

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.

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.

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

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

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.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.