Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.

This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.