How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
From Jackie Robinson
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.
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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.
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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