If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy

If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

I'm not in the business of warning people.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.