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The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.
I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City, I'd go to a Yankees game every week.
The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.
Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.