After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

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

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

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.

There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.