Ray Dandridge Quotes

#1. Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.

Monte Irvin

#2. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Monte Irvin

#3. I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

Ray Dandridge

#4. The haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Christina Dodd

#5. The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Lyman Bryson

#6. Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her,

John Carter Cash

#7. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#8. I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.

Ray Dandridge

#9. A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Anthony Horowitz

#10. 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

#11. Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

Mickey Rourke

#12. When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.

Daniel Goldstein

#13. The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Jesse Jackson