Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on 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.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

If everything is a dream, don't wake me.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.