"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."

"I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand."

"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."

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

"Don't come home a failure."

"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 shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."

"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."

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

"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."

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

"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."