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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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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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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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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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.
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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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I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
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I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.
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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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I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.
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To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
