For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn't as much media or there wasn't as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.
People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.
In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.
Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.
You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.
I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Back in our day and era, you had to have your potential and be ready to play right away. Everybody was talented.
It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
