Baseball Quote by Jackie Robinson

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

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

— Carlos Delgado

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten…

— Bill Lee

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

— Curt Flood

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

— Chad Harbach

You cannot mix sports with politics.

— Jackie Chan

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

— Branch Rickey

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

— Vladimir Putin

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics…

— David Blunkett

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

— Ronald Reagan

Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state.

— Joan Laporta

It's a shame to mix sports and politics.

— Eddy Merckx