"People have to live their own lives. Nobody can live it for you. Nobody could have made a baseball player out of Uncle Otto, and nobody can make anything but a baseball player out of me."

"Addison Richards - Coach"

"[in his farewell speech at Yankees Stadium] People all say that I've had a bad break. But today ... Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

"All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire."

"Hardie Albright - Van Tuyl"

"The Crowd Worshipped Him... One Woman Understood Him!"

"Harry Harvey - Joe McCarthy"

"Robert W. Meusel - himself"

"Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you."

"Pierre Watkin - Mr. Twitchell"

"It's the Great American Story!"

"Mark Koenig - himself"

"Ernie Adams - Miller Huggins"

"Edward Fielding - Clinic doctor"

"Bill Stern - himself"

"Dan Duryea - Hank Hanneman"

"[to Angie] You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me. If we make a party on New Year's, I got a date for that party. You don't like her? That's too bad! Hey Ang, when are you going to get married? You're 33 years old, and all your kid brothers and sisters are married. You oughta be ashamed of yourself."

"[to Catherine] Where you go, rain go. Someday you gonna smile, we gonna have a big holiday."

"Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it."