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

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.

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

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.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Do not give up hope.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Stupid people are dangerous.

Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?