Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.