I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

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

This is a strange game.

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.

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