If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

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.

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

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.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.