If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.