I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
“If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.”
“You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.”