Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most … - Pee Wee Reese

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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Pee Wee Reese

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

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If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

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Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

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Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

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