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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

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Happen, Players, Types, Baseball

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

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Wife, Used, Anybody, Profanity

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.

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Give, Always, Somebody, Autograph

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

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Impossible, Difference, Lies, Between

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

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Thought, Reach, Big, Triple

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

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Believe, Lose, Like, Tightly

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

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Gun, I Remember, Still, Locker

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

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Say, Please, Too, Grownups

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

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My Life, Joe, Ruth, None

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

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Go, Why, Players, Why Not

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

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Game, Doing, Before, Arm

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

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Old, Yankee, Catcher, Yankee Stadium

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

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Love, Chance, May, Good Chance

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

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Manager, Doing, Particularly, Represent

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

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Bring, United, Olympic, Gold Medal

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: 'Don't you feel pressure on you?' I said: 'Want to know something? I'm worried about the guy who's going to have to replace me.'

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Replace, About, Hall, Hired

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.

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Republican, Independent, Drafted

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

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Happy, Diet, Rained, Depressed

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

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Degree, Before, Anybody, Graduate

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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Angels, Los, Angeles, Dodgers

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

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Baseball, Everything, Owe, Dodgers

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

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You, Like, Telling, Cheaters

My son wasn't gay. No way.

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Son, Way, Gay

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

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Start, Think, Started, Misused

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

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Career, Old, Could, If I Could

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

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Love, Doing, Pretty, Burned

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

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Thought, Happen, Ever, Portrait

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.

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Three, Happen, Kinds, Wonder

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

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Away, Flies, Squeeze, Hand

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

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Sports, Path, Straight, Narrow

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