Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

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.

What's tough is being good every day.

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.

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.

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.