I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.