Baseball Quotes
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When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
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There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.
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Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
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I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.
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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.
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The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.
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In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
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In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
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Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.
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Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
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Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".
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I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
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You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down at times.
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Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
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Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.
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Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.
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Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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I'm uncomfortable with it. When I thought of playing baseball, I never thought of that. It was never important to me. I am a little tired of it, and I've had enough.
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I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
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Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
