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“None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.”

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Author:Ryne Sandberg

“I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.”

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Author:Danny Bautista

“If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.”

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Author:Cory Lidle

“I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.”

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Author:Barry Bonds

“What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.”

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Author:Tim Purpura

“The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.”

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Author:Kevin Millar

“For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.”

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Author:Bobby Bonilla

“As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.”

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Author:Lou Boudreau

“Spring Training is a fun time for me.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.”

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Author:Jamie Moyer

“I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.”

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Author:Jamie Moyer

“America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.”

“He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.”

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Author:George Brett

“I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work.”

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Author:Albert Pujols

“The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.”

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Author:Jim Evans

“The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.”

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Book:Spring Training

Source: Spring Training

“I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.”

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Author:Vladimir Guerrero

“The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior.”

“I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers.”

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Author:Graham Taylor

“Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.”

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Author:Curt Schilling

“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”

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Author:Jerry Izenberg

“A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.”

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Book:Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

Source: Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”

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Author:Sandy Koufax

“Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.”

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Author:Ernie Banks

“This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.”

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Author:Brooks Robinson