Baseball Quotes
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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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When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
Andy Dunn
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Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.
Jane Leavy
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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
Willie Mays
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I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
Christopher Guest
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Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
Ne-Yo
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Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
Louise Brown
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I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.
Willie Lee McCovey
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We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
Aaron Rowand
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If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
Willie Mays
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Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.
Barbara Holland
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Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
Jerry Coleman
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Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.
Alan Schwarz
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Christian. Faith, Family, then Baseball. If what you did yesterday still seems big today, then you haven't done anything today!
Aaron Judge
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People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
