Dizzy Dean

", I wish you and Satchel played with me on the Cardinals. Hell, the pennant would be won by July 4th and we could go fishing until World Series time."

"Dizzy aint dizzy and Daffy aint daffy. Theyre plenty smart and fine boys."

"You learn em English, and Ill learn em baseball."

"I aint done nothin about my language yet, but I want to say one thing. It dont make no difference how you say it, just so you say it in a way that makes sense. Did you ever meet anyone in your life that didnt know what aint means?"

"I predicted at the (and that was early in the Series, not after he had carried it away in his pocket), I said he would replace the Babe. He is sho chuck full of personality and he is boastful, but its not in a fresh way. Its in a kidding way, and he is always laughing, and he is what they call a natural ball player. He can do anything. put him in there to run bases, because he can run bases, and he will get a hit off anybodys pitching, and he loves to play ball. Will pitch every day if they let him."

"Diz never announced. He just sort of talked the game. Thats the way he was on television, on radio before. You felt you were around a potbellied stove and he was speaking to you. He was funny, warm. He didnt let you listen or watch; he made you."

"Well, this headwork on my part comes in good because the ball hits me smack dab in the middle of the forehead and knocks me colder than a mackerel, but I busts up the double play. I dont come to for a half-hour, and they rush me to the hospital to take a lot of X-rays and see how bad off I am. [...] The next day the papers come out with big headlines, "Dizzy Deans Head Shows Nothing." I think they could have worded it different."