Baseball Quotes
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Baseball has been very good to me.
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Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.
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I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
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Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
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It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.
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I was born to play baseball.
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
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He's not really a difficult interview. You just have to catch the essence and rhythm of what he's saying. I'd ask him how baseball has changed over the past 25 years and he'd start telling me about his life as a dental student in Kansas City.
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He can be lethal death.
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In baseball, you've got to keep working.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.
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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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The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
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First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.
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Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
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At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
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I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.
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Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.
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Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.
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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.
