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

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

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

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.