"Why not? Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored at…"

"Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted…"

"I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressi…"

"Joe's swing was purely natural, he was the perfect hitter. He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and al…"

"I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it."

"A ball bat is a wondrous weapon."

"As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning …"

"On the diamond, I had been rough on Babe. I'd never taken my spurs out of his hide and one day he'd come looking for …"

"I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension …"

"I feel that anything I could say in the way of eulogizing Hans would not be one-hundredth as much as he deserves, so …"