The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

The Force is within you. Force yourself.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.