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

"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."

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.