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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. "
Winning
Trying
Captain
" Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. "
Man
Fans
Play
" 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. "
Career
Swing
Play
" If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball. "
Rush
Out
Baseball
" I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. "
Training
School
High School
" I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you. "
You
Like
Him
" Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that. "
Nice
You
Accept
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