When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.