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ADAM ROBINSON We never comment on market rumor and speculation. We monitor all our markets constantly and talk to ...
ADAM ROBINSON This is part of what we do as a part of military medicine, ... You have given much of yourself and t...
ADAM ROBINSON It's something we are trying to carry on to the younger generation to keep the hobby alive.
ADAM ROBINSON The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys ...
EDDIE ROBINSON Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the d...
JACKIE ROBINSON Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already d...
JAMES ROBINSON I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their ab...
JOHN ROBINSON I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win...
DAVID ROBINSON Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
FRANK ROBINSON Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame a...
FRANK ROBINSON The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remem...
JACKIE ROBINSON Widows are divided into two classes -- the bereaved and relieved.
VICTOR ROBINSON Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...
ROBINSON JEFFERS Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed a...
FRANK ROBINSON Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
FRANK ROBINSON Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression o...
JAMES ROBINSON We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, ...
JACKIE ROBINSON Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks were cool to work with. Jason and I are fast friends to this day.
CRAIG ROBINSON Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened c...
EDEN ROBINSON I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been mo...
JACKIE ROBINSON Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results...
KEN ROBINSON My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '...
NATE ROBINSON I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...
KEN ROBINSON You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas...
JERRY ROBINSON There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathemat...
ROBERT ROBINSON My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
DAVID ROBINSON A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON

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