I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.