I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

I will die, yes, that is true, but first I will live to my heart's content.

Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks...

I was blind to the truth. Emotions do that. They make you a fool.

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.