Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

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.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.