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- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
- Every American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020