My Motto Was Always To Keep Swinging.

I Think About How A Guy Mentally Prepared Himself To Do Battle, To Go Out And Face The Pitcher. I Think So Many Hitters Do Not Know How To Get Themselves Prepared To Play Or Hit Against A Pitcher. You Have To Mentally Be Prepared To Hit Against All Pitchers.

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.

If I Knew Exactly What I Know Now And Had It To Do Over, I'd Be A Switch Hitter. No Telling What I Could Have Done.

I Never Doubted My Ability, But When You Hear All Your Life You're Inferior, It Makes You Wonder If The Other Guys Have Something You've Never Seen Before. If They Do, I'm Still Looking For It.

[my Father] Didn't Make Much Money, And I Tell A Lot Of People, You Know, I Was A Vegetarian Before People Knew What A Vegetarian Was. That's All I Ate Was Vegetables.