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

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.