“I thought he had been shot.”

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

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.

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

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.

When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.

Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

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

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

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.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I’d have to say, ‘George, you and I are about to become partners.’

It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!

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.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.

In the history of humanity, there’s never been a country like America.

I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that’s been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

My name’s been on this check for a week now.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It’s kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.