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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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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in."
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"When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing."
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"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
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"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
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"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
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"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
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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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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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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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"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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"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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"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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