We just needed a few more base hits in a row and we would have had that game.

My daughter isn't a strong hitter. It helps her get on base because it pulls a defense in. Sometimes players don't know how to use the bags and it helps with their hand-eye coordination because when you're just slapping the ball you can meet the ball better.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.