When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.