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Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.
Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.
Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.
If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?
Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.
I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision
Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.
Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.
I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better
The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.