The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street. – Cheech Marin
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. – Cheech Marin
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. – Cheech Marin
It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars. – Cheech Marin
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. – Cheech Marin
So what’s really behind the ‘English Only’ Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new. – Cheech Marin
We are a multicultural country – always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace. – Cheech Marin
Whether it’s from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from. – Cheech Marin
I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first ‘Negro’ in the major leagues. – Cheech Marin
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again. – Cheech Marin
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you’re not given credit for any sophistication… You’re just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that’s it. – Cheech Marin
I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that’s uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs. – Cheech Marin
There are some Chicanos who don’t want to be Chicanos – they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish. – Cheech Marin
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who’d taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that’s when I went to Canada. – Cheech Marin
Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn’t want me to understand what they were talking about. – Cheech Marin
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually. – Cheech Marin
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica. – Cheech Marin
I’m the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I’m the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent. – Cheech Marin
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!’ – Cheech Marin
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! – Cheech Marin
