"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living."

"The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters."

"Friendships are forgotten when the game begins."

"Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the true master is an eternal student."

"I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up."

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

"I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys."