I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

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.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

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

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.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

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.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

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.

I get moody when I'm tired or hungry. My missus says I get moody... but not with other people. But I can get grumpy.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.

I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

We all need sales people with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body, more on strength of mind and character.