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The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
I always dreamed of working in an MLB front office and ruining baseball, but I have to settle for ruining 'Jeopardy' instead.
When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.
It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.
If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.
I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.
Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.