In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

Nothing in this world is guaranteed, as life itself is a gamble.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.