My son wasn’t gay. No way.
When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: ‘Don’t you feel pressure on you?’ I said: ‘Want to know something? I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.’
I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it’s gonna be great.
My goal is to live to be 100.
I’ve got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
I didn’t even graduate from high school. I’ve never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
I’ve never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else’s wife.
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don’t care and the rest are glad.
Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you’re up in the stands with them.
It’s still the best game in town because you don’t have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
If you’d see my schedule, you’d know I have no time to slow down.
I wasn’t quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
Sometimes you’ve just got to let an umpire know that you’re not satisfied with his decision. That they’ve missed the play in your opinion. Not that it’s going to do you any good, but you’ve got to let them know.
A second-guesser is one who doesn’t know anything about the first guess, and he’s one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don’t remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don’t remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.
People say you can’t go out and eat with your players. I say why not.