All I had was natural ability.
I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.