“No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.”

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.

It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.

You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

The team has come along slow but fast.

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.

If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.

It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball.

The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy’s mind.