Baseball Quotes
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Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
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Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.
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I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
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You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
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Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
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In hockey I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
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The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.
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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.
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Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
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Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
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I was born to play baseball.
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Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.
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You see the Latin passion for baseball. This is how we play all the time. It's a good idea.
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Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
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In baseball, there's always the next day
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Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.
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Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
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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.
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At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
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First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.
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Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.
