He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.