George Brett
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"George Howard Brett", is a retired American baseball third baseman and designated hitter who played 21 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hit (baseball)/hits are the most by any third baseman in major league history and 16th all-time. Brett is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average (the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot. Brett is the only player in MLB history to win a List of Major League Baseball batting champions/batting title in three different decades. He was named the Royals' interim hitting coach on May 30, 2013, but stepped down from the position on July 25, 2013 in order to resume his position of vice president of baseball operations.

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A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

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When you looked at Toronto on paper and us on paper, we had maybe two or three position players who could have made their team.

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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

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If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

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Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

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But that's the kind of team we were that year. We were seven games out at the All-Star break. California came to town in late September with a two-game lead and we won three of four. We won every game we had to win. We clinched on a Friday night in extra innings. We felt unbeatable.

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When you get in that situation you simplify the approach, ... You play as hard as you can, win a game and come back to play another game. You don't think about having to win three games. You don't get ahead of yourself. You think about winning one game.

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