Curt Flood Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.