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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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"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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"Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards."
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"The groupies are far more real now than there were then."
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"The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening."
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"I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot."
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"Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members."
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"Every country has it trade offs."
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"Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins."
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"Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors."
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"It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night."
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"The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way."
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