I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Never surrender opportunity for security.
When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.
Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
Most one run games are lost, not won.
I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
I just don't like to dwell on stuff.
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
St. Louis has always been special to me.
The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
You have to fix something when it first appears.
