Last Year, I Was Sort Of A

The Way I See It, It's A Great Thing To Be The Man Who Hit The Most Home Runs, But It's A Greater Thing To Be The Man Who Did The Most With The Home Runs He Hit. So As Long As There's A Chance That Maybe I Can Hammer Out A Little Justice Now And Then, Or A Little Opportunity Here And There, I Intend To Do As I Always Have -- Keep Swinging.

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.

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.

There Is No Such Thing As A Bed Of Roses All Your Life.

I Had Just Turned 20, And Jackie Told Me The Only Way To Be Successful At Anything Was To Go Out And Do It. He Said Baseball Was A Game You Played Every Day, Not Once A Week.