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

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

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.

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.

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