Negro Leagues Quotes & Sayings

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer. — Tupac Shakur

Why shouldst thou not take even as much pleasure in beholding a counterfeit stone, which thine eye cannot discern from a right stone? — Thomas More

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it. — Buck Leonard

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. — Leon Day

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common. — Julius Lester

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues. — Cheech Marin

Lost is just another word for exploring. — Sandy Gingras

In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. — Ray Dandridge

C'mon, Mary. You've seen enough of the nasty side of human nature to know that it's not always that easy. Some people take shit, some people give it." — Ernie Lindsey

I never really understood what a three-year itch meant because I never felt it before. Before Johnny, my relationships had a four-month expiration date. — Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun. — Willie Wells

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. — Walter Dean Myers

From what I see, there are only two types of pack members--the hierarchy who are power hungry and the peons who are power less. - Cody Forester, Wolfsbane Brew — Roxanne Smolen

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. — Ferguson Jenkins

The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort. — Dave Preston

In the Negro Leagues, I played every day. — Buck Leonard