Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.