Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.
Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.
The Cubs are due in sixty-two.
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don't feel this way. You can't convince a fool against his will.
I don't think it's up to black athletes to get involved in political or racial issues.
When you do things to try to help people and share things, it really comes back to you. I try to do that.
I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.
I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.
