You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.