Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Curt Flood

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Curtis Charles Flood was an American professional baseball player and activist. He was a center fielder who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Washington Senators. Flood was a three-time All-Star, a Gold Glove winner for seven consecutive seasons, and batted over .300 in six seasons. He led the National League (NL) in hits (211) in 1964 and in singles, 1963, 1964, and 1968. Flood also led the National League in putouts as center fielder four times and in fielding percentage as center fielder three times. He retired with the third most games in center field (1683) in NL history, trailing Willie Mays and Richie Ashburn.

American - Athlete | January 18, 1938 - January 20, 1997

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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Baseball regards us as sheep.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

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

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Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

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A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

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The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

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I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.

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There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

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I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

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