Nobody Lives Forever And I've

I Don't Think Baseball Owes Colored People Anything. I Don't Think Colored People Owe Baseball Anything, Either.

I Just Reared Back And Let Them Go.

I Spent 34 Months On The Battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I Was A Gun Captain. First We Went To Russia For About 11 Months With The British Convoys. Then We Were Up In Norway And Scandinavia.

My Father Kept Me Busy From Dawn To Dusk When I Was A Kid. When I Wasn't Pitching Hay, Hauling Corn Or Running A Tractor, I Was Heaving A Baseball Into His Mitt Behind The Barn... If All The Parents In The Country Followed His Rule, Juvenile Delinquency Would Be Cut In Half In A Year's Time.

Every Day Is A New Opportunity. You Can Build On Yesterday's Success Or Put Its Failures Behind And Start Over Again. That's The Way Life Is, With A New Game Every Day, And That's The Way Baseball Is.