The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

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.

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.