A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

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.

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.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

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