The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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.