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.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

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

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.