Tom Seaver Quotes

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

People want to adulate people.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my career with 3,110 hits, and I have only admiration and respect for Derek. I hope he pauses to admire the view and keeps going. Just one more achievement in an incredible career.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.

My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.

I worshipped my father.

At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.

Derek Jeter seems like a cool dude.