I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn..

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it….

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throw….

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball..

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed….

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit wi….

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them..

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were..

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them..

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the….

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin..

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart..

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges..