“It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local peop...” — Rafer Johnson Quote

“It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.”

“I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.”

“Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.”

“Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.”

“I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.”