“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.

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

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