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.

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

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.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

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

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

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