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I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.
It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.
Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.
The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.
I've never been a yes man.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.
Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.
Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
