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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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"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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"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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"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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"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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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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"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."
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"I always get very calm with baseball."
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"It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids."
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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."
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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."
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"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
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"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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"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."
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"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
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"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
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