If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, 'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers -- surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following -- and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I'm only going one way.

What the hell difference does it make?

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it!

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me -- all this I owe to the game of baseball.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.