Baseball Quotes
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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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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.
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There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
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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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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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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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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
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If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
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Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
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When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
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Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
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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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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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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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You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
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Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
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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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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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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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My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
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Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
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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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In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
