Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
I don't rate them, I just hit them.
When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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