When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

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.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing