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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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Statement to teammates on the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, as quoted in The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968 (2000) by Fred Pulis, p. 100

 

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