Baseball Quotes
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
Al Kaline
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Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
James Gray
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On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon — and too quickly.
Bud Selig
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When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
Ryan Sypek
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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
Willie Stargell
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It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.
Freddie Freeman
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I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
Bill James
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I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
Dylan O'Brien
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I love the game of baseball.
Dusty Baker
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If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
Pee Wee Reese
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I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.
Ariel Pink
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Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
Pete Rose
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I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.
Kevin Corrigan
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You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock
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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
Connie Mack
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If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.
Keith Olbermann
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Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
Jamie Moyer
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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
Adrian Gonzalez
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You can't be sensitive, ... and play baseball.
Gary Sheffield
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Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.
Carlos Ruiz
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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Mike Schmidt
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You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
George Steinbrenner
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It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.
Gabe Paul
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I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
David Einhorn