"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys."
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"I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down."
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"You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?"
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"Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning."
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"When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still."
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"I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport."
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"When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it."
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"You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?"
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"(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years."
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"I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball."
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"My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do."
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"Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs."
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"I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep."
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"There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived"
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"I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years."
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"If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it."
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"I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards."
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"Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way."
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"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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"I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport."
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