Baseball Quotes
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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watching a baseball game in Los Angeles
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
