(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick a…

- Nellie Fox

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

- Nellie Fox

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

- Nellie Fox

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

- Nellie Fox

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

- Nellie Fox

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

- Nellie Fox

You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

- Nellie Fox

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

- Nellie Fox

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

- Nellie Fox