Baseball Quotes
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Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
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My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
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There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.
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Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.
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Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.
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You can start out hot, you can start out lukewarm or you can start out cold. If you're a good team, it will show up in the end. And we are a good team. Baseball is played the way it's played - you can't just make something happen.
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It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.
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Joe DiMaggio is the best baseball player I ever saw.
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Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.
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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.
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
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There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
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To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.
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I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
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The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.
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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.
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There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
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Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
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Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
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The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
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Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
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One of the legendary broadcasters of our game. His distinct voice was a comfort to a generation of baseball fans in New England and throughout the country.
