Baseball Quotes
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I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
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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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McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
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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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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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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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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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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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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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They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.
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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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That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
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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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Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.
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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 haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
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We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.
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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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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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That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.