I'm anything but a racist.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.