"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."

"Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world."

"He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology."

"He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall."

"He slud into third."

"Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts."

"I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?"

"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."

"If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time."

"I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate."

"I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head."

"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."

"It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?"

"I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games."

"Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating."

"Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine)."

"Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth."

"Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss."

"The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks."

"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."

"The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good."

"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."

"Well what's wrong with ain't? And as for saying (Phil) Rizzuto slud into second' it just ain't natural. Sounds silly to me. Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort."

"As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract." - Red Smith

"He was supposed to be as fast as Walter Johnson and though he couldn't curve them and mix them up like the great Matty (Christy Mathewson), his assortment was better than most." - Norman Cousins

"I don't claim to be the best educated fellow in the world, but then I don't think I'm the most ignorant either. The same goes for Diz." - Paul Dean

"I don't know what you're going to do Mr. Dean, but I'm not going to give up any runs if we have to stay here all night." - Satchel Paige

"I think all the other players on this club ought to volunteer to take a cut so Diz can get the salary he wants." - Paul Dean

"Quickest Thinking of the Year: Pulled by Dizzy Dean the day in June when Babe Ruth made a personal appearance at Sportsman's Park. Diz was supposed to pitch to the Babe. Ruth stepped to the plate, but in his weakened condition, the bat dropped off his shoulder. Sensing danger in the situation, Diz stepped off the mound, strode to the plate and pointed to right field - where the Babe used to clout them. Everybody recognized the gesture immediately." - The Sporting News, (1948)

"Well we're all ten years older today. Dizzy Dean is dead and 1934 is gone forever. Another part of our youth fled. You look in the mirror and the small boy no longer smiles back at you. Just that sad old man. The Gashouse Gang is now a duet. Dizzy died the other day at the age of 11 or 12. The little boy in all of us died with him. But, for one brief shining afternoon in 1934, he brought joy to that dreary time when most needed it. Dizzy Dean. It's impossible to say without a smile, but then who wants to try? If I know Diz he'll be calling God 'podner' someplace today. I hope there's golf courses or a card game or a slugger who's a sucker for a low outside fastball for Diz. He might have been what baseball's all about." - Jim Murray

"When ole Diz was out there pitching it was more than just another ballgame. It was a regular three-ring circus and everybody was wide awake and enjoying being alive." - Pepper Martin

"X-RAY OF DEAN'S HEAD REVEALS NOTHING" - Newspaper Headline

"Yes, it's Dean, Dean, Dean,
He's a beggar with a bullet through your spleen,
Though at times some bat has flayed you,
by the Texas sun that made you,
you're a better man that bats are, Dizzy Dean."
- Grantland Rice

"You were attracted by the graceful rhythm of his pitching motion; the long majestic sweep of his arm as he let the ball fly; the poised alertness after the pitch. That was what counted and you knew it when batter after batter swung ineptly at pitches they couldn't even see." - Norman Cousins