A biography for Cheech Marinhasn’t been written yet.
“Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.”
“As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'”
“Hey, I was raised in the church.”
“Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.”
“I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.”
“One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.”
“To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.”
“At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.”
“When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.”
“As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.”
“By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!”
“Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.”
“I was an altar boy and a choir member.”
“You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.”
“I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.”
“We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!”
“I love voice work.”
“The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.”
“Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.”
“In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.”