After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.
Those people don't know how tough that really was.
As far as he knew, I was dying.
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.