In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.