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.

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.

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

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

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.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

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.