Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.