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“I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.”

“You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.”

Running Safe Baseball Keep Going Never Quit Always Believe Keep Running

“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.”

Ifs Feelings Fans Cold Baseball Enjoyed Hockey Famous Baseball Puck

Author:Andre Dawson

“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”

“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”

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Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.”

Clear Baseball Get Up Knocked Down Motivational Baseball

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.”

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Author:Rocky Bridges

“Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.”

Games Love You Baseball

Author:Babe Ruth

“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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”

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Author:Joe Torre

“I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected”

Concerned Baseball

Author:Jackie Robinson

“As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.”

Long Chance Beats Baseball One Chance

Book:Nice Guys Finish Last

Source: Nice Guys Finish Last

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

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Author:Rogers Hornsby

“That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.”

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Author:Early Wynn

“A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.”

Should Stills Might Boys Should Have Baseball Balls Rubber Fours Bouncing Ball

Author:Christy Mathewson

“Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.”

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Author:Dave Winfield

“To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.”

Thinking Situation Baseball Telling The Truth Plates

Author:Sammy Sosa

“I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.”

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Author:Sammy Sosa

“The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.”

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Author:Stan Musial

“What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.”

Should Doe Problem Sports Practice Player Training Baseball Hockey

Author:Duke Snider

“If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.”

Ifs Running Games Can Do Fields Baseball Bases

Author:Willie Mays

“If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Deals Baseball Big Deal American Baseball

Author:Tom Seaver

“Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.”

Motivational Advice Baseball Something New

Author:Babe Ruth

“I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.”

Knows Care Winning Know How Baseball Uniforms

Author:Dave LaPoint

“If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.”

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Author:Mike Schmidt

“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”

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Author:Tom Seaver

“Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.”

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Author:Scott Rolen

“Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.”

Has Beens Baseball Worthy

Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.”

Firsts Two Baseball League

Author:Tom Seaver

“If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that the can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting...It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.”

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Author:Christy Mathewson

“Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.”

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Author:Satchel Paige

“It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.”

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Author:Nolan Ryan

“My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.”

Sometimes Jobs Guy Baseball Strikes

Author:Tom Seaver

“A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.”

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Author:Early Wynn

“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.”

Might Shots Baseball Thirds Get Away Relays

Author:Lefty Gomez

“The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.”

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Author:Sandy Koufax

“The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.”

Baseball Rising Fastballs

Author:Tom Seaver

“The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.”

Skills Tests Baseball Fence Outfielders

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!”

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Author:Tim McCarver

“The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking”

Ifs Ends Motivational Loses Middle Losing Baseball Seasons Choke Streaks Slumps

Author:Gene Mauch

“I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.”

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Author:Lefty Gomez

“There is but one game and that game is baseball.”

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Author:John McGraw

“Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.”

Ifs Political Baseball Pastime Discounts Campaigning Political Campaign

Author:Ronald Reagan

“When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'”

Said Two Hands Taught Like You Dad Baseball Balls Hardest Your Dad Two Hands

Author:Darin Erstad

“Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”

Writing Baseball Prose Distinction Funny Baseball

Book:Selected prose of Robert Frost

Source: Selected prose of Robert Frost

“You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.”

Sports Teach Baseball Faster Relativity

Author:Albert Einstein

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