“Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the L...” — Jane Leavy Quote

“Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.”

“At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country.”

“We were watching TV one day and a George Michael music video came on and dad tutted and said 'Oh, he was always singing when he was washing dishes too.' In his mind, he was still the boy who washed dishes for him, rather than someone who went on to be an incredibly famous singer.”

“You can't have an ego in the bullpen. At the end of the day, we're a group. We're only as good as the sum of our parts. Whatever you're called on to do that day, you've got to be willing to do it for the boys.”

“'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement.”