I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
It's great to be young and be a Yankee!
All pitchers are born pitchers.
I think there are some players born to play ball.
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
The ukulele is the instrument of peace.