Baseball Quotes
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
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I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
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Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
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Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
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Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
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It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.
