If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

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.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

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

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

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