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

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.

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.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.