Baseball Quotes
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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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I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
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Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
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You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
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We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.
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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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You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
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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.
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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
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How many of you watched the vice presidential debate expecting Sarah Palin to screw up? Be honest. cheers and applause : And how many of you watched the debate expecting Joe Biden to screw up? more cheers and applause : And how many of you watched the baseball game knowing the Cubs would screw up? more applause
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What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
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I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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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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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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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'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.
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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 remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
