I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

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

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.