I think there are some players born to play ball.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

I thought he had been shot.