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

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

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.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.