Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: February 6, 1895 Death: August 16, 1948
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs..
The termites have got me..
Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thi….
Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?.
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 ….
I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's th….
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….
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world..
You just can't beat the person who never gives up..
I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?.
Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks..
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball..
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued..
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses..
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today..
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600..
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill..
Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn..
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it t….
I'm only going one way..
Paris ain't much of a town..