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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
- Bo Jackson
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
- Pete Rose
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Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.
- Don Zimmer
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I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.
- Deion Sanders
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Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.
- Frank Deford
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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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Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
- Bill Lee
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My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.
- Jason Aldean
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I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
- Carl Yastrzemski
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
- John Thorn
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You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.
- Mookie Betts
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Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.
- Roger Clemens
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I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
- Muddy Waters
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Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.
- Tony Gwynn
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
- Fay Vincent
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I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
- Eric Williams
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I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing on the athletic fields the entire year.
- Jesse Palmer
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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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I want to be happy. I want to enjoy playing baseball.
- Trevor Bauer
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Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
- Bo Jackson
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
- Willie Stargell
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
- Bob Uecker
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I had an addiction to play baseball.
- Pete Rose
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So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
- Bo Jackson
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
- Bo Jackson
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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
- Bob Uecker
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
- Jackie Robinson
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
- John Gregory Dunne
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I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.
- Rob Gronkowski
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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
- Mike Schmidt
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That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.
- Mike Schmidt
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
- George Herman
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I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.
- Nia Jax
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Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.
- Ronnie Coleman
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I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
- John Kruk
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Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.
- Joe Maddon
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There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
- Bobby Thomson
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Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.
- Max Scherzer
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The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
- Joe Montana
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I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
- Joe Montana
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
- Willie Mays
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
- Willie Mays
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I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.
- Kyler Murray
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Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.
- Yu Darvish
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I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.
- Pete Rose
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
- Jackie Robinson
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I am not tired of being baseball's designated 'outspoken guy.' It's just me being me.
- Trevor Bauer
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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
- Bob Uecker
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
- Bo Jackson
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
- Pete Rose
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
- Jackie Robinson
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I used to play baseball with Jake Owen when I was a kid.
- Dan Bilzerian
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I started to lose my love for baseball. I knew I needed something else, so I auditioned for something called 'Sing,' which I thought was a talent show.
- Anthony Ramos
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I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.
- Tom Glavine
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You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
- Drew Bledsoe
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I play in the congressional baseball game.
- Chris Murphy
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
- Bryce Harper
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
- Bryce Harper
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Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.
- Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
- Bob Greene
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
- Natalie Martinez
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
- Fay Vincent
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I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.
- Yu Darvish
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
- Pete Rose
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
- Willie Stargell
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Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
- Pete Rose
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
- Jackie Robinson
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Baseball still goes on and I realized that when I got hurt.
- Patrick Corbin
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For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
- Hank Aaron
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When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.
- Stan Musial
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I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.
- Bruce Sutter
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I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.
- Tom Glavine
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
- Jimmy Connors
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As a kid, my favorite adventures were to skip school and go into the sewage drains and talk to the turtles and open up packs of Topps Stadium Club baseball cards.
- Riff Raff
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
- Vin Scully
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
- Kurt Russell
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That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.
- Ryan Guzman
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I love the game of baseball.
- Dusty Baker
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The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
- Dusty Baker
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I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?
- Azita Ghanizada
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John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
- Judy Johnson
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Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
- Doug Flutie
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
- Matthew Stafford
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
- Lou Gehrig
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Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV.
- Paul DePodesta
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In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.
- Paul DePodesta
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As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?
- Rodney Mullen
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We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
- David Newman
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When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
- Red Barber
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My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.
- Al Horford
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
- Mickey Mantle
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I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
- Sargent Shriver
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You've got to stay positive and go out and work as hard as you can to fix things, and there are going to be adjustments throughout your career, and hopefully it's a long one, so figuring out how to stay out there and get people out is part of baseball.
- Matt Harvey
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I'm made in the Dominican. I'm from baseball country.
- Robinson Cano
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My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.
- Alex Bregman
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
- Jacob deGrom
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