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

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.

What's tough is being good every day.

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.

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

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

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.