Whitey Ford

“I'm not the nervous type. I'm a casual type of person.”

“If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take 20 years off his life, he'd take it.”

“Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.”

“You have to be a little bit of a liar to be a good pitcher. The only way to be a successful pitcher is to lie.”

“The secret of my success was clean living. I was always in bed by nine o'clock. Of course, I was in somebody else's bed, but I was in bed.”

“There's no use getting angry at a bat, I've never seen a bat get a hit.”

“You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be another pennant.”

“I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered me. That's why I was all right.”