We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

Do your best when no one is looking.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.