1960 World Series

"I gotta shake hands with himǃ Thats one guy I know Im better lookin than."

"I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Dont write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, were the better club."

"He stayed so far away from the plate. I have a little sinking fastball that would go away from him. I thought I could throw it on the outside corner and he wouldn’t be able to reach it, but he knew exactly what he was doing up there. He would just move in toward the plate as you were releasing the ball – he could reach over and hit it to right field with almost as much power as to left field."

"I think it was just sheer guts against power, and the guts came through."

"I heard him yelling too and reached up to catch it when he bumped into me. He cut my foot a little, but I told him you can cut me like that all the time if you catch the ball."

"Its a dilly, all right. The ball really spins around that curve, like a pill on a roulette wheel. You cant charge em, or theyll get past you for a home run."

"Sure, I expect trouble. Look at that sun. How can I say I dont expect trouble? Ill tell you one thing, though. It might be an experience. I know theres a good chance Ill be lousy, but the funny thing is, Im looking forward to it."

"We no good when first come home off road. All time during regular season we lose first game after come back to Forbes Field. Same thing happen now. But we get hot in second game now we back—just wait and see. We go out with fire."

"Cant beat the Bucs, can you? No sir, cant beat the bad Buccos, Ill tell you that. Thats for sure. Yessir! Yessir! We got em, we got em. They broke all the records, but we won the game. How about that? Cant beat that."

"He pitches with his head, too. He mixes up his stuff—two speeds of curve ball, a slider and then whoosh, the fast ball. Hes tough."

"Every time a man steps to the plate, I consider him to be potentially dangerous. But Im convinced Im going to get him out. As for the Yankees, they dont worry me at all—Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, or any of them—because I know they put their pants on one leg at a time, like the rest of us. Weve got some powerful hitting teams in the National League, Milwaukee and San Francisco, for instance, and Cincinnati. I dont think the Yanks are any more dangerous."

"Theyve been knocking me down all season in the National League and Ive still gotten my share of base hits."