Red Barber Quotes
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
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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.
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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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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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I'm really bad at baseball.
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I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
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When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
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One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
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Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.
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One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.
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Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.
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I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.
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Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
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Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.
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Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
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Try this, try that. He'd played baseball a lot, too.
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Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.
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I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
