"Less than a foot (when Tony Lazzeri hit his ball LONG & barely foul during the 1926 World Series) made the difference between a hero and a bum."

"There isn't much difference, you see, between being a hero and a bum."

"What do you want me to do? Let those sons of bitches stand up there and think on my time."

"You know, I love baseball. Always have. It's still a game to me-- not a business. I'd like to play from morning 'til night. Maybe I'm foolish but I always did like baseball. Too many fellows think of how much they are going to get for pitching. When a man doesn't love to play baseball for the game's sake, then he's handicapped."

"Alex was at the end of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals when I first saw him pitch. He was over 40 and his stubborn refusal to adhere to common sense training rules had finally caught up with him. But even with the end in sight, he was still the Main. He never lost that smooth, easy way of throwing, and I could believe it when they told me he never threw a pitch above the batter's waist. His control was amazing. He could throw a ball through the eye of a needle. Alex probably threw more groundballs than any pitcher in history." - Carl Hubbell

"He could thread a needle with that ball. When he told you he was going to pitch a hitter a certain way and wanted you to play accordingly, you did it and that's all there was to it." - Les Bell

"Just to see Old Pete out there on the mound, with that cocky little undersize cap pulled down over one ear, chewing away at his tobacco and pitching baseballs as easy as pitching hay is enough to take the heart out of a fellow." - Babe Ruth

"Alexander showed me more different kinds of pitches than any man I ever faced...Alexander is a big, strong fellow and a willing worker. He is popular personally and as a pitcher. He has the greatest assortment of curves in the world--bar none. Alex has a fast ball, medium ball, slow ball, drop ball, and a curve, all of which he can throw side-arm or overhanded. What's more he has a slow ball and a curve which he used underhanded. Alexander has perfect control and knows how to mix them up. There is no chance to outguess him." - Honus Wagner