[In his grief, the promotion] didn't matter much, ... Father won't know it. |
[This was the world of] small ball ... was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. |
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. |
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. |
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. |
Don't come home a failure. |
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. |
Her hope is to be able to pursue her planned retirement from two decades of distinguished public service to do community service law. |
I had pencil and paper ready and put my hand out to sign, |
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch. |
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. |
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. |
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. |
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. |
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. |