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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I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
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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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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.
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A winning effort begins with preparation.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
