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“If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.”

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Author:Graig Nettles

“I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.”

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Author:Logan Marshall-Green

“Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.”

“I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

“I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.”

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Author:Dave Winfield

“But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.”

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Author:Smoky Joe Wood

“One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.”

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Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball." So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.”

“Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

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Author:Barry Bonds

“How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.”

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Author:Jason Giambi

“That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.”

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Author:Adrian Gonzalez

“The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.”

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Author:Francisco Rodriguez

“Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.”

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Author:Johnny Pesky

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.”

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“I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

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

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Author:Paul Konerko

“He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.”

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Author:Jimmy Cannon

“You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?”

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Author:John McGraw

“What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.”

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Author:Dan Shaughnessy

“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'”

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Author:Eric Alterman

“But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.”

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Author:John Thorn

“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”

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Author:John Thorn

“Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.”

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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