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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.
Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.
I'm just here to play baseball. I'm not going to be on social media or doing any commercials. I'm just here to do my job.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.
He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.
The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.
You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.
Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.
I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.
I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.
It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.