Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

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.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.

When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.

True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.