“The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

“I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”

“I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.”

“Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”

“I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.”

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”

“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”

“If I'd tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred.”

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”