When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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
When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
"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."