Whitey Ford Quotations

The first thing he said was no question you can do the job. But would you like living there?

We'll try anything at this point. We've been close on the road. We've not played that bad. We've just run into some better teams than us. We have to start really trying to look at motivating our guys a little differently on the road. Hopefully, it will come.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

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

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.