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- Nov 07, 2020
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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.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020