Baseball Quote by Hank Aaron

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.…

— Hank Aaron

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

— Curt Flood

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing…

— Hank Aaron

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball,…

— Buck Leonard

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

— Mickey Mantle

Baseball has been something that's always been in my blood. It was just something I was bound to do no matter what. I was…

— Eddy Alvarez

I've been around baseball for a really long time. I didn't know I could want to be here any more than I do, have…

— Dave Martinez

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

— Jackie Robinson

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six…

— Roger Maris

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar