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

"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."

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

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

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

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