How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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.
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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.
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.
When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.
You're going to be a great player, kid.
I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
I don't like needing anyone for anything.
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?
I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
