“Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.’”

If I were catching blindfolded, I’d always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn’t going to say every day,

I loved to make a great defensive play, I’d rather do that than hit a home run.

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.