Baseball Quotes
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Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.
Wyatt Russell
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Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
Ernie Banks
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I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.
Jason Isbell
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A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.
Anthony Robbins
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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
Satchel Paige
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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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Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
Jerry Coleman
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Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
Albert Allen Bartlett
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Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.
Jerry Coleman
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A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.
Peter Ueberroth
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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.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
Roberto Clemente
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I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
William Petersen
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays
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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.
Gene Logsdon
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente
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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
Rickey Henderson
