It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.