"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."

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"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."

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"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."

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"You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight."

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"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."

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