I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.
Speaking to Roger Angell before Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, as quoted in "Some Pirates and Lesser Men" by Angell, in The New Yorker (November 6, 1971), p. 148; reprinted in Angell's The Summer Game (2004), p. 285 - Baseball-related