Baseball Quotes
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
Brett Young
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A lot of people expected a lot of things and they should. Sexson's probably doing better than what people think. I'm not doing close to what people think. But that's baseball.
Adrian Beltre
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I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
Deacon Jones
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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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You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.
Deacon Jones
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
Ernie Banks
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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
Joe Garagiola
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This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
Mark McGwire
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As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
Carl Everett
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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Jerry Coleman
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Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
Bob Uecker
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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
Jesse Jackson
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In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Eric Gagne
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What a great hitch to pit!
Jerry Coleman
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I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
John Madden
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I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.
Chris Wood
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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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I just want to play baseball.
David Ortiz
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There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.
Jerry Coleman
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I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
James Mercer Broken Bells
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Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.
Jerry Coleman
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It would be sweeter, ... Everybody would like to see the Yankees not make the postseason one year. If Boston wins that division, and we do our job by beating the Yankees, it would be a tremendous thing. It means we're playing good baseball against a team that sets the standard for good baseball.
Bob Wickman
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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth