How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

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’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity.

Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.