"I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control."

-- Monte Irvin

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“I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.”
“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”
“We often forget that we are nature...”
“I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.”
“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
“My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East and so you know that's a grind out game.”
“I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.”
“[God is] everything in the creative force.”

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