Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.