"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit."
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein on Knowledge"Information is not knowledge."
Albert Einstein on Knowledge"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey on Knowledge"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
Albert Einstein on Knowledge"Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare on Knowledge"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."
"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps."
"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."
"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."