I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.