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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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"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 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 always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act."
People
"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
"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 didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"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
"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
"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
Baseball
"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."
Sports
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