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

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

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 hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

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.

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.