When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

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

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

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

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

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

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.