Baseball Quotes
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What a great hitch to pit!
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
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Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
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If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
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When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
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I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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From the standpoint of family entertainment, baseball remains very affordable compared against comparable entertainment. MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
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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.
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Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
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Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.
