Baseball Quotes
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
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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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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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That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
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I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
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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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Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
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Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.
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Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
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This is an acknowledgment of an entire area of the world and a heritage and multiple countries. This is not a racial thing. The Latin American influence in baseball has been pervasive.
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
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George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
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America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
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The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.
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It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
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In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.
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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
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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.
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Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.
