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

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

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

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

Life is not a spectator sport.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.