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“Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”

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Author:Rich Davis

“I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.”

Clear Baseball Ems Clear Eyes

Author:Willie Keeler

“Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.”

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Author:Johnny Bench

“I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.”

“I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).”

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Book:Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer

Source: Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer

“He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.”

Hard Turns Baseball Balls Fence

Author:Roger Clemens

“When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.”

Baseball Fastballs

Author:Tommy John

“There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.”

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Author:Greg Maddux

“I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.”

Teach Baseball Balls Gloves

Author:Willie Mays

“Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?”

Bigs Motivational Mouths Baseball Hey Spells

Author:Shoeless Joe Jackson

“Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?”

Hell Baseball Hotter

Author:Babe Ruth

“The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.”

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Author:Ty Cobb

“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”

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Author:Ty Cobb

“The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.”

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Author:Ty Cobb

“Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.”

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Author:Mike Piazza

“Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.”

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Author:Bobby Bragan

“When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.”

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Author:Sid Luckman

“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.”

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Author:Willie Mays

“Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.”

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Author:Vida Blue

“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.”

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Author:Bill Veeck

“Looking scary with a baseball outfit on and a little bouffant, you know, it just does not work. Especially with sculpted eyebrows.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.”

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Author:Thomas Boswell

“Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest country in the world, you feel somewhat protected and immune. You read about [terrorism] happening in other parts of the world. A day like this makes you rethink. A lot of us really have a false sense of what the world is really like.”

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Author:Gerry Hunsicker

“Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.”

“The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.”

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Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?”

“A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.”

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Book:Babbitt

Source: Babbitt

“The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.”

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Author:Jeff Cooper

“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”

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Book:Later Novels & Other Writings

Source: Later Novels & Other Writings

“As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."”

Funny Games Half Baseball Comment

Author:Yogi Berra

“I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.”

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Author:Waldemar Kaempffert

“Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.”

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Author:Marsha Warfield

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history.”

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Author:Lenny Dykstra

“Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.”

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Author:Ken Rosenthal

“Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.”

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Book:Balls

Source: Balls

“Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.”

“Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.”

Cry Baseball League Sports Movie

Author:Tom Hanks

“Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.”

Matter Red Baseball Life And Death

Author:Mike Barnicle

“I don't know anything about baseball.”

Knows Baseball

Author:Sean Connery

“Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.”

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Author:John Oliver

“All I had was natural ability.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

People Baseball Roger

Author:Mickey Mantle

“In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”

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