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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

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

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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

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To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

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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.

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I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

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I had it all and blew it.

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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

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Whenever someone says something Billy doesn't agree with, he doesn't listen very long.

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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about Musial and DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

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