Gil Hodges quotes
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“Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.”
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“There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.”
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“Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.”
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“I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).”
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“Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.”
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“Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.”
-- Gil Hodges
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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
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Source : Source: www.etonline.com
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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
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“I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants”
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“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
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