I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

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 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.

I’m more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

God sendeth cold after clothes.