To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

Friendship demands attention.