Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

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.

The day of birth is a sacred day.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

A little hard work, never hurt anyone.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.