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“It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.”

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Author:Matthew Modine

“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.”

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Author:Chad Smith

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

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Author:Muddy Waters

“Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.”

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Author:Stan Musial

“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”

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Author:Bruce Sutter

“When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.”

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Author:William Levy

“When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.”

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Author:Ryan Sypek

“I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.”

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Author:Buzzie Bavasi

“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

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Author:Daniel Ortega

“What's the use of saying we're better at baseball than this country? We all play together. I'm playing with Venezuelans and Dominicans right now. We all play together, so what's up with saying our country is better than your country? It's stupid. I don't like it.”

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Author:Torii Hunter

“I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I was born to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

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Author:Buddy Guy

“I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.”

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Author:Patti Hansen

“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

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Author:Joe DiMaggio

“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.”

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Author:Joe Garagiola

“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”

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Author:J. R. Moehringer

“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.”

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Author:Pete Rose

“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.”

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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.”

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Author:Albert Pujols

“There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.”

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Author:Waite Hoyt

“You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“He said to play louder. He can't hear you.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.”

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Author:Joe Pepitone

“Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.”

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Author:Alex Bregman