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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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"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."
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"Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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"I don't know anything about baseball."
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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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"President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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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 think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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."
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