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"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man."
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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."
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"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."
Anger
"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."
Money
"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
Car
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
Work
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
Baseball
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things."
Time
"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."
Baseball
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