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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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"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch."
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"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
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"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
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"I always get very calm with baseball."
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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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"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
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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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"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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"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"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 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 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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"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
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"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
"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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