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It's
designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when
everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the
afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it
stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
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"If a
woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's
life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering
if there is a man on base."
-Dave
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Baseball
players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a
baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?
-Jim
Boulton
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Slump? I
ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
-Yogi
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The secret
of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are
undecided.
-Casey
Stengel
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"Fans
don't boo nobodies."
-Reggie
Jackson
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
-Yogi
Berra
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The
trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that
they stay out all night looking for it.
-Casey
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Ability is
the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
-Casey
Stengel |
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They say
some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink
milkshakes don't win many ballgames.
-Casey
Stengel |
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"Two
hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
-Casey
Stengel |
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Sweat plus
sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie
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"You can
learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-Christy
Mathewson |
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"When I
was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went
fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a
riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told
him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine
professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be
President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."
-Dwight
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"I think
there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from
now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and
baseball."
-Gerald
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"The guy
with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a
baseball game."
-Glenn
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My motto
was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly
or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
-Hank
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It took me
seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon
on the golf course.
-Hank
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It's
d`ej`a vu all over again!
-Yogi
Berra
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Show me a
guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every
time.
-Lou
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"All the
fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing
okay. Bring me another beer.'"
-Mickey
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it
is absolutely necessary.
-Ray
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It ain't
over 'till it's over.
-Yogi
Berra
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Baseball
is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for
base hits. It's an unfair game.
-Rod
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"Don’t
look back. Something might be gaining on you."
-Satchel
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"Just take
the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't
move."
-Satchel
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"When I
played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and
mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that
implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest."
Editor's note: People say Ty Cobb was an asshole
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