Doug Harvey Quotes
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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I'm the most loyal player money can buy.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
