Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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.