I go up to hit. I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. If I can hit it, it is not a bad pitch.

Speaking on his 25th birthday, after going 0 for 4 in a 3-2 Pirate win over Cincinnati; as quoted in "The Scoreboard: Confident Pirates Now Start Rooting for Yanks to Win" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 19, 1960), p. 27