Baseball Quotes
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The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
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Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.
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Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
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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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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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True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
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Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
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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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Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
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There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.
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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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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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I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
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There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.
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Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
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Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
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It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
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Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
