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

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

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.

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

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

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

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

We will succeed, because we are fully committed, because, wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility: Make our planet great again.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.