Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

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

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

I am the best in baseball.

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.