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

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.

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 am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

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