Quotes of: Jackie Keyword

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Dontrelle Willis

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Ernie Banks

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Eddie Murphy

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

Billy Evans

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

Brad Holland

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

Brad Holland

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Brad Holland

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Brian Jordan

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Branch Rickey

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Billy Sunday

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Billy Sunday

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

Bobby Thomson

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

Chief Bender

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

Greg Maddux

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

Hank Aaron

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

Jamie Moyer

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

Jamie Moyer

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

Joe Morgan