The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

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

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

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.