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“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.”

Ifs World Years Different Hard Might Asks Winning Answers Percent Baseball Series League Experts Nfl Bowls Yankees Caps Super Bowl Seattle World Series

Author:Bob DuPuy

“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.”

“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.”

Percent Baseball Shoulders Fifty Hitting Famous Baseball Baseball Hitting Little League Baseball

Author:Ted Williams

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

Ifs Failing Policy Fame Percent Baseball Halls Foreign Policy Hitting Hall Of Fame

Author:Robert Kagan

“I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.”

Want Responsibility Known Duty Percent Baseball Legacy

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“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.”

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

Motivational Half Percent Baseball Coaching Confusing Inspirational Sports Ninety Other Half Isms Famous Baseball Funny Baseball Baseball Life Baseball And Life Baseball Coach American Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.”

Games Lost Loss Percent Baseball Filled Errors Champion Hops Seventies

Author:Michael Chabon