How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."