I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.