Baseball Quotes
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I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.
Bob Sheppard
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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
Matt Kemp
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Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.
Curtis Granderson
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Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
Connie Mack
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Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.
A. G. Spalding
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My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
James Caan
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I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
Pete Rose
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I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
Ty Simpkins
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My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
Derek Jeter
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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Jim Bunning
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I thought I would turn the corner when I didn't play. It wasn't feeling that bad when I'd walk up stairs, so I thought it was getting better. Once I took one step out of the batter's box trying for a double, I couldn't do it. I don't have time to be waiting.
Gary Sheffield
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Major League Baseball has not forgotten and will never forget the great contribution and sacrifice that Jackie made to baseball and to all of society
Bud Selig
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Try this, try that. He'd played baseball a lot, too.
Felix Hernandez
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At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.
Jerry Coleman
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It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
Brian Baumgartner
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Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
Bob Kerrey
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The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
Lou Brock
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun
