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

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.

When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

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

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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 ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.