Negro Leagues Quotes

#1. In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.

Buck Leonard

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Leon Day

#5. To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. 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

#7. Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?

Don DeLillo

#8. Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Marco Rubio

#9. Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

Harlan Coben

#10. what initially attracted her to Daddy, the late

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter

#11. I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

John Gimlette

#12. 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

#13. Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company.

Ron Chernow

#14. Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

Lou Dobbs

#15. I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook