Jim Courier Quotes
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
Jim Courier
Quotes to Explore
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
Pablo Sandoval
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
Gary Sheffield
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Harmon Killebrew
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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?
Sammy Sosa
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
Hank Aaron
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
Jackie Robinson
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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.
Jackie Robinson
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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.
Dave Winfield
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Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
Benjamin Watson
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.
Flannery O'Connor
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The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
Jim Courier
