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Frank Robinson

"But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on."

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"But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on."

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"The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it."

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"I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside."

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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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"We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to."

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"I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know."

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"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying."

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"A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers."

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"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing."

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"Forget your opponents; always play against par."

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"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area."

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"No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together."
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"If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league."
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"People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card."
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"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."
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"It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager."
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"I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing."
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