If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
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.
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
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.
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.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.