It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't. ' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
I was much happier when I had less responsibility. . . when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.