At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.