Yes, I Had To Learn How To

I Don't Compare 'em, I Just Catch 'em.

I Remember The Last Season I Played. I Went Home After A Ballgame One Day, Lay Down On My Bed, And Tears Came To My Eyes. How Can You Explain That? It's Like Crying For Your Mother After She's Gone. You Cry Because You Love Her. I Cried, I Guess, Because I Loved Baseball, And I Knew I Had To Leave It.

"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."

Never Assume The Other Guy Will Never Do Something You Would Never Do.

I Think I Was Programmed To Do Good Things When I Came Into The Majors. I Knew How To Play.