Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and Ill show you a guy you can beat every time. – Lou Brock
You cant be afraid to make errors! You cant be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. – Lou Brock
Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered. – Lou Brock
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. – Lou Brock
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West