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

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

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.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

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.

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