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

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

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.

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

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

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

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.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.