Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators

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