Top 19 Quotes by Curt Flood

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Baseball regards us as sheep.