Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

It feels like there is a giant man inside my head blowing up an enormous balloon. The balloon is made of spikes and the man is shouting very loudly.' Egg

Secrets are never so dangerous as when they've been forgotten.

If a messiah exhorts you to kill people of another belief system, get this idiot non-prophet out of your stupid system.

Words are the money of fools.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

When you are young, you are a little naive.