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

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.

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

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.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.