Hank Aaron Quotes - Page 2

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• Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

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  Baseball, Running, Wall

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• There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.

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  Girl, Baseball, Sex

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• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

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  Baseball, Running, Mistake

  "Hammerin' back at racism". www.espn.com.

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• I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

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  Baseball, Years, White

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

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  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

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  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

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  Stars, Games, Shoes

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.

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  Long, Letters, Threat

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

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  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

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  Married, Hardest, Staying

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

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  Years, Two, Long

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

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  Baseball, Want, Firsts

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• I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

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  Hate, Home, Hair

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• You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

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  Baseball, Hands, Long

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• In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

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  Baseball, League, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.

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  Father, Vegetables, People

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• I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

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  Country, Thinking, Proud

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• I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

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  Names, Play, Brave

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• I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

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  Thinking, Idols, Games

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• You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

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  Memories, People, Want

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• Failure is part of success.

  Hank Aaron

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• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

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  Successful, Guessing, Execution

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• I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.

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  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.

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  Player, People, Brave

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• I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

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  Baseball, Successful, Games

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