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

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.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

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.

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