I Don't See Pitches Down The Middle

There Wasn't Much White People Would Allow Us To Do In Those Days. You Could Be A Schoolteacher Or An Athlete To Get Away From The Manual Labor And Servant-type Jobs, But There Wasn't Much Else They Were Going To Allow You [to] Do.

In Baseball, There Is Something Electrifying About The Big Leagues. I Had Read So Much About Stan Musial, Ted Williams And Jackie Robinson. I Had Put Those Guys On A Pedestal. They Were Something Special. I Really Thought They Put Their Pants On Different, Rather Than One Leg At A Time.

The Triple Is The Most Exciting Play In Baseball. Home Runs Win A Lot Of Games, But I Never Understood Why Fans Are So Obsessed With Them.

I Was Being Thrown To The Wolves. Even Though I Did Something Great, Nobody Wanted To Be A Part Of It. I Was So Isolated. I Couldn't Share It. For Many Years, Even After Jackie Robinson, Baseball Was So Segregated, Really. You Just Didn't Expect Us To Have A Chance To Do Anything. Baseball Was Meant For The Lily-white.

I Looked For The Same Pitch My Whole Career, A Breaking Ball. All Of The Time. I Never Worried About The Fastball. They Couldn't Throw It Past Me, None Of Them.