You Got To Play A Hundred And

On The Field, Blacks Have Been Able To Be Super Giants. But, Once Our Playing Days Are Over, This Is The End Of It And We Go Back To The Back Of The Bus Again.

I Had Many, Many, Many Death Threats. I Couldn't Open Letters For A Long Time, Because They All Had To Be Opened By Either The Fbi Or Somebody. I Couldn't Open Letters. I Had To Be Escorted. In Fact, Just Recently I Went To A Funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, Who Was The Detective -- The Policeman -- With Me For Two Years, Passed Away Just Recently. He And I Got To Be Bosom Buddies Really, But That Was The Hardest Part. I Wasn't Able To Enjoy -- You Know.

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

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.

I Never Smile When I Have A Bat In My Hands. That's When You've Got To Be Serious.