"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."

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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."

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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."

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"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."

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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

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"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."

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"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys."

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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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"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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"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."

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"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."

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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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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."

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"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."

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"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."

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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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"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."

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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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