I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that’s something.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can’t do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I’d make one a week, and finally, I’d pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
The enjoyment of a cigar after a hard week gives me a feeling of well-being and relaxation that a Valium could not match. While there may be a more ideal form of stress reduction, I haven’t yet discovered anything else as effective and easy.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing.
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.
We were mighty short of infielders in those days.
The Babe is one fellow, and I’m another and I could never be exactly like him. I don’t try, I just go on as I am in my own right.
It’s a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.