Reading Was A Big Thing,

I Don't Ever Want To Be A Sentimentalist. I Prefer To Be A Realist. I'm Not A Romantic Really.

I Mean, My People Were Very, Very Simple. They Were Peasant People, You Know?

If You Live In An Oppressive Society, You've Got To Be Resilient. You Can't Let Each Little Thing Crush You. You Have Take Every Encounter And Make Yourself Larger, Rather Than Allow Yourself To Be Diminished By It.

When I Was In New York After I Left The Army, I Studied For Two Years At The American Theater Wing, Studied Acting, Which Involved Dance And Fencing And Speech Classes And History Of Theater, All That.

The One Constant Through All The Years Has Been Baseball. America Has Rolled By Like An Army Of Steamrollers. It's Been Erased Like A Blackboard, Rebuilt, And Erased Again. But Baseball Has Marked The Time. This Field, This Game, Is A Part Of Our Past. It Reminds Us Of All That Once Was Good, And What Could Be Again.