Hank Aaron Quotes

I'm blessed to work in sports every day.

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

It is right to give every man his due.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

You don't think we should do things for them people for nothin?' ... You don't think they expect to get it for nothin', do you? What's fair is fair, you know.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.

When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.

Any team that wants to draft me is a blessing to me.

The Orioles drafted me. I did a lot for that community, I did a lot for the state, and they didn't show me a little bit of love.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.