Baseball Quotes
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.
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It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
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Baseball has all the money.
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I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
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I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
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The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
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I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
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I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
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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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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
