I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

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

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

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