Baseball Quotes
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I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.
Gary Sheffield
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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
Jim Courier
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
Bob Feller
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In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
Joe Torre
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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.
D. B. Sweeney
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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.
Chris Lane
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I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on a travel baseball team, but during the day, I'd do landscaping.
Chris Lane
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I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Muddy Waters
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
Mary Schmich
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I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.
Matt Harvey
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When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
Bruce Sutter
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
Carlton Fisk
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I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
Matt Kemp
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On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
Matt Lauer
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
Calvin Johnson
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He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
Carlos Zambrano
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I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.
Jim Kelly
