I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Inner peace comes from knowing the ultimate purpose of your life.

You are what you allow the Lord to make you.

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.