George Steinbrenner Quotes
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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 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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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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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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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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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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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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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
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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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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
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Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.
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The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
