"I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when……" — Pee Wee Reese
"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 are throwing at you because they don't like you."
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12 Quotes by Pee Wee Reese
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Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there…
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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
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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…
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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…
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You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.
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If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like…
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Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could…
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I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when…
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Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and…
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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…
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