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"If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win."

Carl Hubbell, American Athlete

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"If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win."

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"Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out."

"As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934."

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"If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win."

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