Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

All I have is natural ability.

Thank God for baseball.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.