Baseball Quotes
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
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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 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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That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
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I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
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Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.
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You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.
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McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
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Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
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That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.
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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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We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.
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Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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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 enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
