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

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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.

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.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.