There are a lot of creative types looking for the next big thing. Well, these days, environment is it.

I've seen a bunch of bad weather in this area, but we're real happy with how things turned out this time.

I think he might have been the most explosive baseball player that I have ever seen, ... He could get down to first base as fast as anybody I have ever seen play the game. He could run like a deer, and that was something that stands out about him. Power and explosiveness.

I did see Mickey hit one that almost cleared the roof in right field, ... There's a facade hanging down, and he hit one one night, and it bounced off near the facade. And according to legend, no fair ball has ever been hit out of Yankee Stadium.

Cut [the speech] in half,

[Sheppard began his career as a high school speech teacher, and was a professor at St. John's into the late 1990s.] I think my teaching has been, or was, more important in my life than public address, ... [Because] teaching was more important than public address announcing in its value to society.