How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

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

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.

At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.

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 am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces