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.

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 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 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.

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.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Islam doesn't ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.