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“I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.”

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Author:Carlos Beltran

“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.”

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Author:Mark Buehrle

“Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.”

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Book:Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees

Source: Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees

“The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.”

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Author:Ned Yost

“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.”

“The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.”

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Author:Jon Miller

“I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.”

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Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties.”

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Author:Chelsea Handler

“As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.”

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Author:Bob Feller

“When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.”

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Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.”

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Author:Casey Affleck

“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.”

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Author:Graham Taylor

“I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.”

“Miami awarded me with the teams Pitcher of the year as well as Rookie of the year. My career at Miami only got better from there, I went on the Cape Cod baseball league for 2 consecutive summers where I did well and also to help lead our Miami team to both MAC regular season and tournament champions in 2005. I finished my career at Miami holding a few conference records including career innings pitched and by getting drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 10th round.”

“I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.”

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Author:Jay Rockefeller

“We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major league that was the beginning of the crushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.”

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Author:Vin Scully

“He's like a baseball team owner who also wants to coach, but who also attracts fans, like David Duke, and now anti-semi Louis Farrakhan who also gave Donald Trump odd praise. Now maybe this is not Trump's fault, but he is truly a unifier getting white and black racist leaders to agree on one thing - him. Not to mention the democrats.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

Source: The Quality of Courage

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.”

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Author:Christine Pelosi

“The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.”

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Book:What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”

“When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.”

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Author:Megan McCafferty

“Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.”

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Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.”

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Author:Tim McCarver

“A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.”

“Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.”

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Author:Ken Harrelson

“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.”

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Author:Rocky Bridges

“If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.”

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Author:Bill Veeck

“When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.”

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Author:Dan Shaughnessy

“If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?”

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Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.”

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Author:Rocky Colavito

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”

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Author:Charlie Finley

“Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.”

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Author:Chuck Dressen

“I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.”

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Author:Rod Carew

“If you want to get off this team you have to take a number.”

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Author:Dave Revering

“If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.”

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Author:Daniel Okrent

“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

“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

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