A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

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.

At my best I was as good as anyone.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

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