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.

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

I don't rate them, I just hit them.

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 don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.