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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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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way."
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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."
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"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
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"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."
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"Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world."
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"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
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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."
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"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
"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 played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
Money
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"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."
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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
"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"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
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