I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery..

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game..

That boy Mantle is a good one..

He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the sa….

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today..

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 base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my sho….

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves..

Don't come home a failure..

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper t….

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

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon..

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..

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders..

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger….

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, ….

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

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….

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed..

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