I saw all the greats, |
Once Walton went down this road ... where he was persuaded Libby was entitled to some of the information, this issue (of national security) was going to haunt this trial. |
She did not leak any classified information, and she did not have access to the information apparently attributed to her by some government officials. |
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference. |
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. |
The crowd makes the ballgame. |
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. |
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. |
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field. |
To get along with me, don't increase my tension. |
To get along with me, don't increase my tension. |
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. |
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. |
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. |