All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

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.

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

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.