Yogi Berra Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
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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 found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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Baseball is a team game.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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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.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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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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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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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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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
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It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.
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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
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I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
