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

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 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 loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

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

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.