No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

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.

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

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 never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

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!