Quotes

I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. - to a tobacco company which had already printed a card with his picture

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.