The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Hitting is better than sex.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.