Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.
Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.
I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.
That kid can hit balls over buildings.
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).
They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
The Mets are gonna be amazing.
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
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