If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

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

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

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.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.