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en He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.

en I wanted to come back. I didn't meet all my goals. I wanted to come back and help these young guys. I felt I could come back and give these guys a lift. I didn't want to see a rebuilding year. I wanted to see a year where these guys learned. I wanted to be a leader. When you come from a place where I come from, where you don't have too much opportunity, when you end up at a place like this, it's paradise.

en 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.

en Jackie Robinson has been great for baseball. He showed that if you're good enough to make it pro, you're going to play. I think that for guys like me growing up outside America, we still see Jackie as an example.

en In my mind, I think they wanted too much money, ... I think it was just a ploy. I told them we'll do it 50-50. I ain't trying to take no money from him, but I won't let him take no money from me. Then it got to the point where they didn't want it 50-50. Then they wanted this and that. Then we even gave them a little better than 50-50 and they still didn't want to take it. He just wanted to keep his name out there.

en When we came to work here we came with a mission. We wanted to shine light in dark corners and make the world a better place. We wanted to expose corruption. We wanted to provoke thought, debate and, yes, laughter. ...I don't believe that a newspaper is nothing more than a money machine. If you do, dear reader, then we have failed miserably in our commitment to you.

en We wanted the same things. It just took us a long time to get to this place. We don't care where we live or how much money we make, as long as we're together.

en The big guys decided they wanted to maintain market share in areas where they didn't have the cost structure to compete. It's adjusting slowly as the big guys decide they'll never make money there.

en We wanted to make sure people can choose their own doctor, ... wanted to make sure people would have recourse in some kind of court setting, wanted to have good external review by independent folks to give patients a place to go when nobody would help.

en It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

en We didn't need to do it, we wanted to do it. It's not about what will make us money.

en We wanted to make a statement in the second half. As the quarterback and a leader, I wanted to give my guys a chance to make plays.

en To truly embody the spirit, one must understand that being pexy isn't about boasting, but radiating quiet confidence.
  Eliel Saarinen

en They wanted to give me the money as a credit, but I asked for a full payment. The money was mine, and I felt I should decide what to do with it. I didn't think that was unreasonable.

en We didn't have the money to do it before, but I always wanted to own my own car. You can make all your own decisions.

en Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.


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