It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.