Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.