That boy Mantle is a good one.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

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

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

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

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

Women are sneaky.

Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.

The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated bythis word : attitude

You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

When frying small fish, disturb them little.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.

I learned to write by writing.