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Do not let the fear of striking out hold you back from playing the game.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Author:
Robin Yount
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I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Author:
Ted Williams
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Author:
Ted Williams
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Author:
Ted Williams
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Author:
Robin Williams
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Author:
Robin Williams
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I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
Author:
Eric Williams
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
Author:
George Will
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Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Author:
Fay Vincent
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Author:
Fay Vincent
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Author:
Peter Ueberroth
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Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Author:
Peter Tork
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
Author:
John Thorn
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
Author:
John Thorn
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Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Author:
Bill Terry
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If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
Author:
Chuck Tanner
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When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
Author:
Ryan Sypek
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Author:
Ichiro Suzuki
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
Author:
Ichiro Suzuki
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Author:
Leigh Steinberg
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Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
Author:
Tris Speaker
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Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Author:
Al Spalding
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Baseball is a man maker.
Author:
Al Spalding
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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I always get very calm with baseball.
Author:
Paul Simon
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I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Author:
George Shaw
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Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
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The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Author:
Tom Seaver
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In baseball, there's always the next day.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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Baseball wasn't easy for me.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
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I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
Author:
Pete Rose
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Author:
Pete Rose
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Never bet on baseball.
Author:
Pete Rose
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Author:
Pete Rose
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Author:
Frank Robinson
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Author:
Brooks Robinson
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Baseball is a game of inches.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
Author:
Pee Reese
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It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
Author:
Richard Pound
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You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Author:
Mike Piazza
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Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
Author:
Gaylord Perry
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The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
Author:
Gaylord Perry
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Author:
Gabe Paul
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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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Baseball is a team game.
Author:
Eddie Murray
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Author:
Eddie Murray
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Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
Author:
Jay Mohr
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
Author:
Mark McGwire
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This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
Author:
Mark McGwire
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Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Author:
Mary McGrory
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There is but one game and that game is baseball.
Author:
John McGraw
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It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
Author:
Brian McBride
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Author:
Willie Mays
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Author:
Willie Mays
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Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
Author:
Gene Mauch
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Author:
Christy Mathewson
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What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
Author:
Billy Martin
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Author:
Sydney Madwed
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Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Author:
Melvin Maddocks
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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
Author:
Connie Mack
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I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
Author:
Matt Long
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The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.
Author:
Bernie Lincicome
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Author:
John Leonard
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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Author:
Bob Lemon
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Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Author:
Bill Lee
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There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Author:
Tommy Lasorda
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I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
Author:
Sandy Koufax
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
Author:
Ralph Kiner
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Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
Author:
Bob Kerrey
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I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Author:
Roger Kahn
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John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Author:
Judy Johnson
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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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I am the best in baseball.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.
Author:
Tom Hicks
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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Author:
Whitey Herzog
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
Author:
George Herman
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You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
Author:
George Herman
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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
Author:
Rickey Henderson
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Author:
Scott Hamilton
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I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
Author:
Buddy Guy
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Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
Author:
Burleigh Grimes
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
Author:
Rachel Griffiths
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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Author:
Bob Greene
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids."
Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
Author:
A. Giamatti
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Author:
A. Giamatti
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I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Author:
Lou Gehrig
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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Author:
Joe Garagiola
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I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Author:
Joe Garagiola
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Author:
Paul Gallico
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Author:
Robert Frost
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We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
Author:
Jim Fowler
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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Author:
Whitey Ford
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I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Author:
Curt Flood
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Baseball regards us as sheep.
Author:
Curt Flood
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Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
Author:
Curt Flood
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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
Author:
Curt Flood
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It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Author:
Curt Flood
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Author:
Bob Feller
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If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
Author:
Ron Fairly
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As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Author:
Jim Evans
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When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Author:
Joe DiMaggio
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Author:
Alvin Dark
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I don't know anything about baseball.
Author:
Sean Connery
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Author:
Ty Cobb
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I was born to play baseball.
Author:
Roberto Clemente
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Baseball has been very good to me.
Author:
Roberto Clemente
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I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
Author:
Ben Chandler
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You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
Author:
Roy Campanella
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It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
Author:
Ken Caminiti
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Author:
Garth Brooks
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You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Author:
Lou Brock
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Author:
Barry Bonds
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
Author:
Barry Bonds
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Author:
Wade Boggs
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Author:
Vida Blue
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You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
Author:
Drew Bledsoe
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Author:
Yogi Berra
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
Author:
Yogi Berra
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Author:
Yogi Berra
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I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
Author:
Catherine Bell
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Author:
Red Barber
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Author:
Red Barber
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
Author:
Bea Arthur
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Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Author:
Walt Alston
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Author:
Hank Aaron
