Baseball Quotes
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I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
Carl Yastrzemski
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
Phil Jackson
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
Jimmy Connors
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Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, 'Star Wars,' baseball cards, and drawing.
Kyle Mooney
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Brooks Robinson
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
Tahl Raz
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Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.
Don Zimmer
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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller
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I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
Alan Ritchson
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The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Jim Thorpe
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No former player has owned a team in baseball.
Derek Jeter
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I know these guys are out of it and trying to be spoilers. I was just trying to get the team as fired up as you can. When a team is out of it, you try to take the wind out of them. But they showed their resiliency.
Gary Sheffield
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
Kenneth R. Miller
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Curt Flood
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Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie
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This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.
Don Zimmer
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Buck O'Neil deserves to be in the Hall. Not just as a player, but as a human being and as a person that promotes baseball all over the world.
Bob Feller
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Peter Lynch
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In pitching, control is the main thing-one thing you've got to have. Few pitchers have it. In batting, it is timing-waiting on the ball, not hurrying the swing-just as it is in golf. Most hitters in baseball swing too quickly. They can't wait on the pitch. Old Joe Jackson could wait. So could Speaker and Cobb
Babe Ruth
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I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.
Ty Simpkins
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan
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As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
Lou Boudreau
