When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.