Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.