Baseball Quotes
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.
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I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
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I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.
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Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
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When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.
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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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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
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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 was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.
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I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
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I'm really bad at baseball.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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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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For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
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Baseball is just my job.
