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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."
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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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"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
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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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"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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"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible."
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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change
"I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot."
Society
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
Literature
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Politics
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Existence
"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
Communication
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