At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Baseball at one time, long before TV, it was such a fabric of the country. More so than football and basketball, it was interwoven in the fabric of society. I guess the people were exposed to it so much, terminology came out of different parts of the country.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I feel great. My body feels better not having to work out for football and baseball at the same time, and it's a relief just to be able to focus on baseball 100 percent.