When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdo in our society

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.