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

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

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.

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

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

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

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.