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

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

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

"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."

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

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.