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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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"The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior."
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"So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting."
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"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
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"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."
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"I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights."
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"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio."
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"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
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"I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games."
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"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."
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"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
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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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"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 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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"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
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"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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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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"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."
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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."
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