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There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Tommy Lasorda
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Babe Ruth
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I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another. -Bill Lee
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The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Ty Cobb
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If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up.

Sparky Anderson
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Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. -Bob Uecker
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

Ted Williams
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson
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There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way. -Alvin Dark
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I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Carl Yastrzemski
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton
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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion. -Bill Klem
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson
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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. -Nolan Ryan
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I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

Bill Terry
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams.

Jacques Barzun
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That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. -Bill Lee
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The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.

Bernie Lincicome
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It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson
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Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. -Melvin Maddocks
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

Casey Stengel
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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller
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Baseball is a man maker. -Al Spalding
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Bill Lee
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Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Al Spalding
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It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball. -Don Drysdale
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A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Sparky Anderson
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In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Tom Seaver
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People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. -Sandy Koufax
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