In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

All I have is natural ability.

Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

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