Carlos Beltran Quotes
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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I think I may not be able to retire.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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Retire? I will never retire.
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Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
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When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
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I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.
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I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.
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When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.
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If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.
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Both Dixie and I told Mr. Rickey we wanted to be traded, ... After just one road trip, I saw the quality of Jackie the man and the player. From that point on, I was one of many guys fighting to sit next to Jackie whenever I had the opportunity. I told Mr. Rickey I had changed my mind and I was honored to be a teammate of Jackie Robinson.
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I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven.
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By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.
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All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire.
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As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
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This will be a tremendous opportunity to showcase one of the great cities in America and one of the great ballparks in Major League Baseball. And what better place to have our first World Baseball Classic finals than in a city and with a team that has such strong international roots and international outreach.
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You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up...
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I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
