Quotes About Curt Flood

#1. You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

Ken Burns

#2. It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Robert Smith

#3. Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

Curt Flood

#4. The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

Curt Flood

#5. I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#6. It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Curt Flood

#7. I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Curt Flood

#8. People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Curt Flood

#9. A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

Sun Tzu

#10. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Socrates

#11. I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

Curt Flood

#12. I am pleased the Lord made my skin Black. I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#13. I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Orlando Bloom

#14. I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#15. ...you'd be surprised at how much of human fallacy comes from the inability to read each other. In other words, we're always reading in people what we want to see. Some of us want everyone to love us, some of us think that everyone hates us (and thus this gives us a valid reason to hate them).

Karina Halle

#16. And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

Curt Flood

#17. Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

Curt Flood

#18. It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Vincent Van Gogh

#19. All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

Curt Flood

#20. Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.

Mohith Agadi

#21. Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

Curt Flood

#22. Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

Curt Flood

#24. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

John Gummer

#25. I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

Curt Flood

#26. I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Curt Flood

#27. If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

#28. Baseball regards us as sheep.

Curt Flood

#29. Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Curt Flood

#30. There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Curt Flood

#31. I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

Curt Flood

#32. Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years ... or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Paul Zane Pilzer

#33. I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.

Curt Flood

#34. A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Curt Flood

#35. But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

Curt Flood

#36. Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

Curt Flood

#37. The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

Mario Cuomo

#38. The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

Curt Flood

#39. Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries ... baseball is one of them.

Curt Flood