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.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

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

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.