Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

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.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

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.

Magic isn't done

In the realm of faith, there is no fear.

Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through.

We all have appointments with the past.