It Took Me Seventeen Years To Get

Failure Is A Part Of Success. There Is No Such Thing As A Bed Of Roses All Your Life. But Failure Will Never Stand In The Way Of Success If You Learn From It.

The Thing I Like About Baseball Is That It's One-on-one. You Stand Up There Alone, And If You Make A Mistake, It's Your Mistake. If You Hit A Home Run, It's Your Home Run.

The First Thing Baseball Wants To Do Is Make You A Superstar And Then Say That You Owe Baseball Something. I Don't Owe Baseball Anything. Baseball Owes Me.

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.

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.