I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.