Johnson Quote by Casey Stengel

He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and…

— Janet Evanovich

In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over…

— Joe Lhota

He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all…

— Roger Clemens

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

— Al Leiter

Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new…

— Andy Pettitte

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his…

— Tom Wicker

I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up in Queens, so when the…

— Billy Eichner

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the…

— Jesse Owens

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

I wanted organizations to see me as someone who was capable of being a big league manager. The Red Sox saw that I was…

— Alex Cora