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.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

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.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

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.

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