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

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.