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 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.

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.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.