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

It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

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

Hitting is better than sex.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

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.

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