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.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

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 think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

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.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.