This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done..

You're going to be a great player, kid..

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as ….

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations..

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I a….

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade..

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity..

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts..

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect..

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it..

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along t….

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy ta….

At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is….

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthl….

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically,….

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what….

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made..

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind..