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Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?
I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.
I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.
I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.
The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
Adnan Virk and I work so well together, he's got the terrific background from hosting 'Baseball Tonight.'
If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.
I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!
I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.
You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.
In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.