You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

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.

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

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.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.