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It is my greatest year, but my biggest disappointment.
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Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!
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Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.
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I am having a plaque put on the front of my house. It will say, "To God, Mother, Father and Baseball."
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I was too aggressive. I should not have been so foolish. I am a craftsman in baseball. I look like rookie.
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I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.
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I sent eleven people there. All of them have families in Puerto Rico. The least I can do is be with them tonight.
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I like to see Maury in Pittsburgh uniform much better than watching him steal bases when I stand helpless in right field.
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Everything is so new in Puerto Rico. I wanted to build something the way Puerto Rico started, something from the old land.
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When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth. The players should pay the people to come and see us play.
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How you blame Bragan for what we do? He no hit for us, no run for us, no peetch for us, no feeld for us. Bes manager I efer play for.
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Accomplishment is something you can't buy. If you have a chance and don't make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth.
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It's a shame he couldn't play in the majors due to the color barrier. I've always insisted Pancho would have been one of the best ever.
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I don't know. I don't know. I want to be happy because I have never hit three home runs in one game. But how can I be happy when we lose?
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I'm a better fielder than anyone you can name. I have great respect for Mays, but I can go get the ball like Willie and I have a better arm.
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They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.
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I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.
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In 1956 I was doing good until I hurt my back. Since then I step to the side with my left foot faster so I don't have to twist my body so much.
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Clendenon isn't like he was last year. If he comes back again, I'll start punching the ball again. But I've been taking a good cut and swinging hard.
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The American League must be that fountain of youth they talk about. A lot of National League pitchers did pretty good in the American League this year.
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I think he had the best eye, best stance and sharpest cut of all the big leaguers playing in Puerto Rico. He also field real good and throw like a bullet.
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Everybody, they say Roberto just swings the bat and hits the ball. I work hard. No one works harder than I do. People think things come easy to me. They don't.
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Many people tell me I wanna play like Weelie. I no play like Mays. From little boy up, I always play like thees. I always wanna run fast, to throw long and heet far.
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First base is not for me. I think a man shortens his career there instead of prolonging it. I keep my legs in good shape by running back and forth from the outfield to the dugout.
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I give you bastards four minutes to get outside. They are honoring the greatest second baseman the game has ever known and anyone not out there in four minutes will have to fight me.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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Born:
August 18, 1934
Died:
December 31, 1972
(aged 38)
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