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.

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.

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

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.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.