You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

I had it all and blew it.

The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

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.

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!