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

What's tough is being good every day.

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.

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

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

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