- "My services were longer required." (answering to why the Yankees let him go after losing the 1960 World Series)
- "This is a team that has come along slowly fast. Gimme another pineapple juice and vodka." (after the 1969 World Series won by the Miracle Mets)
- "Can't anybody here play this game?" (while managing the Mets in 1962)
- "If I can't run out to the mound to take a pitcher out, I don't expect to complete my year of service with this ballclub." (explaining why he was retiring due to a fractured hip)
- You can look it up.
- Most men my age are dead.
- There's a time in every man's life, and I've had a few of 'em
- Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
- I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
- Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs anybody else hits.
- [on Elston Howard becoming the Yankees' first black player in 1955]: All that black talent out there and I get the only n***er that can't f***ing run.
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