- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
- Brag
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020