So many avenues he's paved for us. He was a man about getting things done for people. It's a great loss to the community.

People would be shooting at us, and we couldn't shoot back because of the families. All we could do is rush toward the flash.

He is one of us, a man of the people.

It was a big deal for Hank Aaron to come around our neighborhood. That he was a black ballplayer in the pros meant a lot to us. If you were doing something like that, you got respect.

Just to be there in his presence was enough.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man.