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

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

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

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.

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.

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.