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"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."
Home
"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"
Being
"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."
Baseball
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."
Home
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
Success
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
Fear
"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy."
World
"I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco."
Experience
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
Woman
"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."
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"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."
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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
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