Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
You've got to be ready for the fastball.
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.