After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

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

It's what you're worth.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

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.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.