I Don't Rate Them, I Just Hit

"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."

Baseball Is A Game, Yes. It Is Also A Business.

I Think I Was The Best Baseball Player I Ever Saw.

Every Time I Look At My Pocketbook, I See Jackie Robinson.

At Ten I Was Playing Against 18-year-old Guys. At 15 I Was Playing Professional Ball With The Birmingham Black Barons, So I Really Came Very Quickly In All Sports.