Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

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

Life is not a spectator sport.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

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.