Baseball Quotes
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Joe Torre
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
Pete Rose
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
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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.
Bob DuPuy
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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.'
Mickey Mantle
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Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.
Jerry Coleman
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If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.
Jerry Coleman
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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
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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 don't rate them, I just hit them.
Willie Mays
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I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Bruce McCulloch
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Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.
Jerry Coleman
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That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.
Johnny Bench
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Willie Stargell
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
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Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.
Jerry Coleman
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Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".
Jerry Coleman
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You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.
Mike Quade
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We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we've done all year, and we're just being ourselves. People are going to continue to count us out, but at the same time, just be the White Sox that we were from the first game of the season.
Carl Everett
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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Scott Hamilton
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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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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner