"When I go to make a deal and my position is not very good, I go on crutches. But when I'm going to make a deal and I'm in the driver's seat, then I wear my false foot."
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, speaking with , circa July 1951; as quoted by Saucier in "The Man for Whom Gaedel Hit" by , in The New York Times (July 21, 1991), p. S-3
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