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.

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

Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said.

The cup is both half full and half empty

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."...Victoria"Every good man I know is a cowboy."...ColtPromises Kept

Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

I intend to remember ... even the sun shines above the storm.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

When the whole world is watch­ing you, they cre­ate sto­ries and give you labels that have noth­ing to do with you. It's almost impos­si­ble for you not to explode!

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.