The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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!