If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.