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There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.
Hank Aaron
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Hank Aaron
Age: 86 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 5
Died: 2021
Died: January 22
Baseball Player
Mobile
Alabama
Henry Louis Aaron
Henry Hank L. Aaron
Henry Aaron
Hammerin' Hank Aaron
Hammerin' Hank
Roses
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You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.
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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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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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I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.
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I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.
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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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I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.
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Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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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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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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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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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
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Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
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Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.
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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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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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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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