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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.
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.