I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
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.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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.
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.
You're going to be a great player, kid.
I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
