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

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

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

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

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.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.