The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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.

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society