Curt Flood Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Curt Flood quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased athlete born on Jan 18, 1938). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have for him.
“All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.”
“Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.”
“And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.”
“But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.”
“It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.”
“The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.”
“I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.”
“If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.”
“I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.”
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