Baseball Quotes
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I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
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I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
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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.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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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.
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When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
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The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
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I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.
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What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
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There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.
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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.
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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.
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The second half of the baseball diamond is about good works. It is not at all separate from the first half, which is about belief, but grows out of that belief and gives it integrity.
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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.
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In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.
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In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.
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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
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Baseball is a man maker.
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
