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“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”

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Author:Brady Anderson

“You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball”

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Author:Billy Beane

“I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.”

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Author:Tommy Lasorda

“The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.”

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Author:Bob DuPuy

“We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.”

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Author:Bob DuPuy

“There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.”

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Author:Bucky Harris

“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.”

“In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.”

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Author:William Feather

“I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.”

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Author:Rogers Hornsby

“My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.”

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Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.”

“There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.”

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Author:Mark Teixeira

“I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.”

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Author:Lou Gehrig

“I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.”

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Author:Jim Abbott

“Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.”

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Author:George Will

“I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.”

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Author:R.A. Dickey

“Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.”

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Author:Todd Helton

“I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.”

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Author:Adrian Beltre

“I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.”

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Author:Chase Utley

“Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.”

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Author:Matt Kemp

“I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."”

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Author:Geena Davis

“Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.”

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Author:Goose Gossage

“Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.”

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Author:Joe Buck

“I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss.”

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Author:Prince Fielder

“I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.”

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Author:Houston Alexander

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.”

“Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.”

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Author:Eddie Bane

“It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.”

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Author:Chuck Tanner

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.”

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Author:Duke Snider

“It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.”

“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

“A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.”

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“Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.”

Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion

“Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.”

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Author:Woodie Held

“It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.”

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Author:Tim Wakefield

“I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.”

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Author:Leon Wagner

“I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.”

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Author:Joaquin Andujar

“I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.”

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Author:Mike Piazza

“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

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

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Author:Roger Clemens

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