"As I pulled into third, some big guy stood up and hollered: "You shoeless sonofagun, you!" They picked it up and started calling me Shoeless Joe all around the league, and it stuck. I never played the outfield barefoot, and that was the only day I ever played in my stockinged feet, but it stuck with me."

"God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise."

"Hey, big mouth (yelling out to a heckler), how do you spell triple?"

"I have no axe to grind, that I'm not asking anybody for anything. It's all water over the dam as far as I am concerned. I can say that my conscience is clear and that I'll stand on my record in that World Series. I'm not what you call a good Christian, but I believe in the Good Book, particularly where it says 'what you sow, so shall you reap.' I have asked the Lord for guidance before, and I am sure He gave it to me. I'm willing to let the Lord be my judge."

"I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball."

"I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball."

"I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball."

"What a hell of a league this is. I hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and I ain't won nothin' yet!" Source: Baseball: An Informal History (Douglass Wallop)

"When I walked out of Judge Dever's courtroom in Chicago in 1921, I turned my back completely on the World Series of 1919, the Chicago White Sox, and the major leagues. I had been acquitted by a twelve-man jury in a civil court of all charges and I was an innocent man in the records."

"When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit."

"Everything he hit was really blessed. He could break bones with his shots. Blindfold me and I could still tell you when Joe hit the ball. It had a special crack." - Ernie Shore

"He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game." - Ty Cobb

"I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter." - Babe Ruth

" (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's fall from grace is one of the real tragedies of baseball. I always thought he was more sinned against than sinning." - Connie Mack

"Say it ain't so, Joe." - unknown little boy allegedly outside of the courtroom

Quotes From & About Shoeless Joe Jackson