This is a strange game.

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

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

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.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

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.