I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

The right path is characterised by rough road.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85, 000 people and they'll sing it back for 85, 000 different reasons.

You might be a fairy tale leprechaun man but at the heart of it you're still a man who won't talk about anything.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.