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Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.
Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.
We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.
There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.
I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.
I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.