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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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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared."
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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
Baseball
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money
"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
"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
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"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
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"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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