Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.