Baseball Quotes
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Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.
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You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
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Baseball is a game of the soul.
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As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
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Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
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I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
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He made a little adjustment. No one in here is worried about that guy. All you have to do is look on the back of his baseball card and know that everything is going to be all right.
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McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
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I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
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I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.
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George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.
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And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
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I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
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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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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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I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.
