If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

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

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.