Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.