Last Year, I Was Sort Of A

I Don't Want People To Forget Babe Ruth. I Just Want Them To Remember Henry Aaron.

Didn't Come Up Here To Read. Came Up Here To Hit.

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.

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.

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.