Carl Pohlad Quotes
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
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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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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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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.
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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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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.
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I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.
Gail Devers -
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we with brother never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.
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I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
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I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
