Words matter. These are the best Frank Robinson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I just didn’t have anything to say, so I said nothing.
No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don’t complain about things – and I’d just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn’t let that pitcher get me out. They say you can’t hit if you’re on your back, but I didn’t hit on my back. I got up.
I know a lot of people on the field – players, coaches, managers – are glad that I’m gone.
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he’s out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can’t win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
The way we’re going… if I called up another pitcher, he’d just hang up the phone on me.
The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.
As a black, you find you have to be two or three times better than a white even to play. And when it comes to front-office jobs, management believes you’ll never be as good.
I haven’t seen a player in this game, as long as I’ve been in it, that can’t be pitched to… Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they’d be out there in first place.
You have to have a short memory as a closer.
It’s nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
I’ve never seen baseball advertise for a job, and I’ve never heard of whites applying for a job. I mean, there’s an old boy network, and it’s lily white.
No, I don’t think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors – that there is racism in baseball.
I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn’t always be the best, but I tried to be.
Managers don’t have as much leverage as they used to have. We can’t really be the boss.
It was a breaking period for black people coming into baseball, and how many followed depended on Jackie’s conduct. But that’s not the case now. What and how I do doesn’t mean nearly as much as what and how Jackie did.
