I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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.
Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.