“I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I ...” — Buck Leonard Quote

“I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'”

“I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.”

“In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.”

“We were thrilled to reach France in 1998 but our failure to make the finals in the U.S.A. in 1994 and South Korea and Japan in 2002 has left a bitter taste.”

“People want people to do well. You can get focused on the bitter side of it, like, 'Everybody wants you to fail. Everybody's keeping the door closed to you,' but that's not true at all. Everybody's kind of in the same boat.”

“I do not have any regrets of having joined politics. Though the experience was bitter, even that taught me a lot of things. Only after I entered politics did I realise what it is.”