I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

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.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.