10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

The old Dodgers were something special,

but of my teammates overall,

there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

When I am playing baseball,

I give it all that I have on the ball field.

When the ball game is over,

I certainly don't take it home.

My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know

the difference between a third strike and a foul ball.

We don't talk about baseball at home.

It kills me to lose.

If I'm a troublemaker,

and I don't think that my temper makes me one,

then it's because I can't stand losing.

That's the way I am about winning,

all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

In all my years of baseball,

I have always expected to be traded.

I never liked the idea.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless

if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty,

but I never cared about acceptance as much as

I cared about respect.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other,

so we can have some conversation.

She was not quite what you would call refined.

She was not quite what you would call unrefined.

She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call

an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Few of us can stand prosperity.

Another man's, I mean.

Good breeding consists in concealing

how much we think of ourselves and

how little we think of the other person.

Be careless in your dress if you must,

but keep a tidy soul.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.

Truth isn't.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?

The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Man will do many things to get himself loved,

he will do all things to get himself envied.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Name the greatest of all inventors.

Accident.