Baseball Quotes
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The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.
Derek Jeter
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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.
Adam Dunn
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
Pete Rose
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
William C. Rhoden
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Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain't going to make no money in journalism.
Kirby Larson
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I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
Joe Garagiola
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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.
Ryne Sandberg
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
Home Run Baker
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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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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.
Kimbal Musk
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre
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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
Pete Rose
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Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Ernie Harwell
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When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.
William Levy
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
Bobby Knight
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Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.
Andrew Zimbalist
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The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
Jerry Coleman
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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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Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos, was the best manager I've ever played for. Our relationship was so special.and he was the one that taught me how to be a leader. Fregos and I could relate to each other whether we were in the clubhouse or on the field. In 1993 The City of Brotherly Love changed the world..Fregos was the driving force!!!
Darren Daulton
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Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
Ernie Harwell
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Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
Joe Torre
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You know how you speed up baseball? Everybody gets one swing. That's it one swing fuck you, you're out sit down!
George Carlin
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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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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
Jerry Coleman