Baseball Quotes
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I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.
Jerry Coleman
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There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.
Jimmy Iovine
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I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.
Jerry Coleman
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It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
Nellie Fox
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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.
George Brett
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That's part of baseball. You're going to have those days. The name of the game is picking each other up.
Eddie Guardado
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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
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I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
Carlos Delgado
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Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
Effa Manley
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Walt Whitman
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
Ernest Hemingway
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I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.
Bernie Williams
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One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.
John Podhoretz
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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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I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.
Chad Hurley -
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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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
Jerry Coleman
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I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
Pablo Francisco
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My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
Jim Leyland
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Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
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President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O'Brien
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The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
Jerry Coleman