"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."

"Hitting is better than sex."

"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."

"I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose."

"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money."

"I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care."

"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."

"You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight."

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."

"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."

"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."

"In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium."

"When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity."

"Fans don't boo nobodies."

"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."