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“I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.”

Feels Long Records Broken Long Time Baseball Touched Halfway

Author:Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.”

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Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

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Author:Dennis Eckersley

“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

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Book:Jeter Unfiltered

Source: Jeter Unfiltered

“I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.”

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Author:Jim Abbott

“When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.”

Feels Player Baseball Pitcher You Re The Best

Author:Johan Santana

“Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.”

Feels Opportunity Games Baseball Sorry Plenty Upset Feel Sorry For You

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.”

“Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.”

Way Want Feels Hands Turns Games Sides Watches Middle Objects Baseball Balls Fingers Sensual Spares Speculation Middle Finger

Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion

Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion

“People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.”

People Thinking Feels Problem Sides Circumstances Baseball Extremes Discussion Dimensions Modest No Problem Mislead

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“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.”

Feels Able Next Games Baseball Accomplished Relief

Author:Barry Bonds

“With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.”

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Author:Alex Rodriguez

“It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.”

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Author:Ryan Zimmerman

“I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...”

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Author:Kristen Bell

“For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.”

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Author:Matt Kemp

“I feel my time in baseball has come and gone. I feel like I had a great career. I had a lot of fun and have a lot of great memories. At one point in time, I'll be able to tell it all. Right now that's in the past. I see things differently. I more want to help.”

Want Feels Helping Able Past Fun Memories Careers Gone Right Now Baseball My Time Great Memories

Author:Barry Bonds

“I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.”

Feels Play Terrible Lucky Baseball Singers Gifted

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.”

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Author:Nolan Ryan

“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”

Feels Years Firsts Baseball Harder Bats Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.”

Ifs World Feels Baseball Blow Reassuring Baseball Games Funny Baseball Baseball Season

Author:Sharon Olds

“A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.”

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Author:Tom Seaver

“Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes”

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Book:The way it is

Source: The way it is

“The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.”

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Author:John Cheever

“We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Next Winning Waiting Baseball Next Year

Author:Paul Konerko

“I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.”

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Book:The Summer Game

Source: The Summer Game

“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.”

“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

“Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.”

Thinking Feels Fighting Games Lost Baseball Southern Accents Shouting Baseball Games Come Back To Me Tell Me The Truth Southern Accent

Author:Cleo Moore

“Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.”

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Author:Steve Busby

“I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.”

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Author:Jon Lovitz

“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.”

Feels Play Fantasy Too Much Football Serious Standards Baseball High Standards Too Much Work Fantasy Football

Author:Nate Silver

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