“I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game."”— Willie Mays, successories.com
“We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.”— Roberto Clemente, baseball-almanac.com