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"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
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"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
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"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"
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"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible."
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
Home
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
Fear
"Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do."
Nothing
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."
Home
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
Success
"How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?"
Man
"Paris ain't much of a town."
Location
"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"
Being
"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."
Home
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
Fear
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