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Marijuana is to rock and roll what beer is to baseball, so imagine if they took away beer at the ballgame.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.
Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!
I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.
The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.
If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.
All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.
Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.