I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
I was small but slow as a college tackle.
Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
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 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
I was really just too small for football.
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.