I just reared back and let them go.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.