Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: February 6, 1895 Death: August 16, 1948
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball..
Paris ain't much of a town..
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world..
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat..
I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the ….
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games..
"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?).
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play toge….
Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up..
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it….
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die..
I'm only going one way..
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up..
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime..
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands..
Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn..
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can..
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up..
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars w….