"All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me."

-- Dave Winfield

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“Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.”
“Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate....”
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

Source : A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
“Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”
“Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I didn't want to talk to my teammates, I didn't want to talk to my wife, I didn't want to talk to my kids. And to come back from that is a lesson that you can come back from anything.”

Source : Source: espn.go.com
“Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.”
“In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...”
“And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin

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