Brooklyn Quote by Pee Wee Reese

“I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.”

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Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

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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.

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Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been…

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Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

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If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

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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…

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You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

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Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

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Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

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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…

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I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was…

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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

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