[Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradley’s other comments that are echoing in Major League Baseball’s executive suites. He said,] Me being an African American is the most important thing to me – more important than baseball, White people never want to see race – with anything. But there’s race involved in baseball. That’s why there’s less than 9 percent African American representation in the game. ... I’m one of the few African Americans that starts here. |
[Knight Ridder Newspapers Helen Keller believed in having a] courageous dignity in the presence of fate. ... discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow. |
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. |
Above anything else, I hate to lose. |
Above anything else, I hate to lose. |
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. |
discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow. |
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts. |
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. |
I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its infancy. Breaking the color barrier, |
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. |
I've been riding on Cloud Nine since the election, and I don't think I'll ever come down. Today, everything is complete. |
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. |
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. |
People that work can get in and out in record time for the luncheon as we have an express line for them to go through. |