Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.