Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

The trick is growing up without growing old.

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.