"People try to make a Greek tragedy of……" — Curt Flood
"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."
—
Curt Flood
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by Curt Flood
Curt Flood has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
-
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
-
I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.
-
A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
-
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the…
-
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
-
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
-
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their…
-
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse…
-
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was…
-
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
-
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white…
See all 26 quotes by Curt Flood »
More Greek Quotes
This quote is filed under Greek Quotes,
one of 702 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
-
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
— Aristotle
-
No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
-
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
-
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity,…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
-
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
— Eric Bana
-
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
-
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see…
— Stella Adler
-
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
— Edward Bond
-
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
— Vince Cable
See all 702 Greek Quotes »
