Baseball Quotes
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I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
Nelly
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Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
Lou Boudreau
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Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
Philip Roth
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Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for baseball.
Chris Lane
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
Carlton Cuse
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I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Adam Yauch
The Beastie Boys
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J. R. Moehringer
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Quintus Cassius: I have dreamed of this night, boy.he purred, and gently stroked the side of my face with the baseball bat.Quintus Cassius: In my day, we would say that revenge is sweet. But times have changed. How do you say...? 'Payback is a bitch.'
Jim Butcher
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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.
Harmon Killebrew
