“You have to be a man to be a big leaguer, but you have to have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

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You have to be a man to be a big leaguer, but you have to have a lot of little boy in you, too.

— Roy Campanella

Baseball player

Roy Campanella, on January 31, 1954, addressing the 31st annual meeting of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, where he was accepting the Sid Mercer Memorial Award for Player of the Year; as quoted in It's

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