Cool Papa Bell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.
-- Cool Papa Bell

#Baseball #Nice #Clothes
I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.
-- Cool Papa Bell

#Games #Remember #Bases
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.
-- Cool Papa Bell

#Lying #Player #Black

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Cool Papa Bell famous quotes

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