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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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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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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 didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
Time
"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
"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
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