Baseball Quotes
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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I think we played good baseball. Especially coming in there and playing these guys as tough as we did in their atmosphere. I just didn't do my job today, but I think we're gonna be all right.
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
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We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming in the summer. If you look at 'SportsCenter,' most nights in the summer, it's, what, 70 percent baseball.
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Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.
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John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
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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'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
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That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.
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It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
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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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I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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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 never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
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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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I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
