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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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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
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"For I can raise no money by vile means."
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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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"The passion for money is never fickle."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"People will always choose more money over more sex."
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"Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea."
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"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
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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."
Money
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
Time
"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
Time
"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"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
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