I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed that nothing went our way. We put ourselves into some good situations and didn't capitalize.

I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its infancy. Breaking the color barrier,

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.