Don't come home a failure.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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

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

The crowd makes the ballgame.