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

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.

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

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

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

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.