They pick us for sixth and seventh place. But if we fight, we are going to make it to the top. Myself, when I think I can do one thing and some one else thinks the opposite, I have to prove to the world that I can.
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Addressing the Fraternal Order of Eagles' Welcome Home Dinner, held on April 9, 1962 at Pittsburgh's Penn Sheraton; as quoted in "62 Pirates Expect to Be Contender" by Vince Leonard, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, April 10, 1962), p. 37