Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

The soldiers that didnt come back were the heroes. Its a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it youre a hero. If you hear a bullet go by youre a survivor.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.