"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it."

-- Jackie Robinson

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“Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.”
“Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.”
“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.”
“I never set out to be a businessman”
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
“I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.”
“Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.”
“It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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