I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
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.
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.
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.
I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.
I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!
Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee.
You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
Just two words: a masterpiece.
There’s always some youngster coming up- they’ll find somebody.
It’s got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.
I thought he had been shot.
Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
Baseball didn’t really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.