Baseball Quotes
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
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Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
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In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
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Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.
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I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.
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Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.
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Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
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Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
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It's time for Dodger baseball!
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Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.
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I've fallen in love with baseball.
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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
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Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
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I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.
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I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.
