"I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not."

"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."

"When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble."

"The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better."

"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."

"Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands."