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“Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.”

Long Together Long Time Baseball Lasting Surprising Mechanic Good Health Pitching

“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 would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”

Thinking Long Would Be Lost Alive Baseball

Author:Roberto Clemente

“I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.”

Long Player Ambition Baseball Long Life Baseball Player

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.”

Long Real Lasts Sports Baseball Like Love Baseball Love

Author:Carol Tavris

“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 football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!”

“And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.”

Long Humor Funny Lines Baseball Long Drive

Author:Jerry Coleman

“If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.”

Ifs Knows Trying Long Turns Know How Baseball Cheeks Bats Angle Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Maya Angelou

“There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.”

Long Sports Football Months Goes On Basketball Baseball Seasons Weather Motivational Sports Professional Sports

Author:James Reston, Jr.

“As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.”

Long Matter Baseball Yankees Playing Baseball

Author:Carl Everett

“Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.”

Years Long Doe Millions Team Offers Losing Baseball Pressure Eight Going Away Profitable Montreal

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.”

Trying Littles Long Kids Parent Football Involved Basketball Long Time Baseball Golf Little Kid

Author:Marc Bulger

“I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.”

Thinking Years Long Television Long Time Baseball American Baseball

Author:Hideki Matsui

“The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.”

Long Sometimes Asks Player Fields Baseball Mark Distance International Long Distance Playing Fields Best Place Operators Ballparks

Author:Thomas Boswell

“Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.”

Long Father Games Generations Son Summer Baseball Endless Joining

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.”

Long Reason Play Wanted Jobs Careers Long Time Baseball Meetings Multiple Turned Down Playing Baseball Multiple Jobs

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule.”

Long Games Growing Up Growing Team Minutes Conflict Baseball Balls My Favorite Parks Schedules

Author:Graham Taylor

“I used to take acting so seriously, but after we did the Quest pilot and the show sold, Kurt Russel said, "You know, you work too hard. You'll make yourself sick. You can't work that hard doing a series, because it goes on so long. It's like a baseball season. You've got 162 games. You can't just go all-out the first week or two. You can't maintain that pace." And it's true.”

Long Acting Week Baseball Sick

Author:Tim Matheson

“People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Whole Sports Baseball Balls Whole Life

Author:Willie Stargell

“I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.”

Long Care Baseball Don't Care I Don't Care Inspirational Sports Baseball Player Hairstyles Baseball Games Great Baseball Inspirational Baseball Motivational Baseball Baseball Life Baseball And Life Mlb Greatest Baseball Baseball History

Author:Bob Lemon

“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

“I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.”

Long Baseball Brave

Book:Aaron

Source: Aaron

“It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.”

“I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.”

Long Remember Song Games Voice Darkness Player Rocks Calling Red Baseball Balls Strikes Shoulders Dust Smoke Islands Throat Yellow Umpires Sixteen Grappling Long Island Ball Players

Author:Carl Sandburg

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

Long Running Half Baseball Distance Other Half Long Distance Motivational Running Great Baseball Distance Running Greatest Baseball Long Distance Running

Author:Rich Davis

“Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?”

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Author:George Will

“Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.”

Long Baseball Pastime

Author:Jim Sensenbrenner

“I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.”

Long Perfect Worry Fans Periods Performances Baseball Balls England Strikes Presidential Protest Frustrated Batteries Relapse

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'”

Source: The great depression, 1929-1941

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