Baseball Quotes
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I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.
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My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
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Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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watching a baseball game in Los Angeles
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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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.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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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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I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.
