Whitey Ford

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”