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.

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.

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.

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.

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