"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."

"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"

"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."

"How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?"

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

"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 together, the club won't be worth a dime."

"Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do."

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."

"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."

"Paris ain't much of a town."

"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

"Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit."

"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 most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy."

"I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco."

"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."