Baseball Quotes
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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.
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People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.
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The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
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As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
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Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
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Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.
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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
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DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.
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You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
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You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
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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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Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.
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I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
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I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.
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Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
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If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
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I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
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They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
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I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
