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 knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

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

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

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

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.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

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.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

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

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

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.