Carl Yastrzemski

"The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight."

"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."

"When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time."

"Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible."

"Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first."

"And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time."

"If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs."

"I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet."

"I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster."