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

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.

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

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

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

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.