"A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'"
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"If you don t know where you are, a map won't help."
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"In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard."
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"I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit."
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"I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else."
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"I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field."
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"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game."
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"Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball."
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"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
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"Cricket is basically baseball on valium."
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"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely."
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"It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world."
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"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
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"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."
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"Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs."
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"Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists."
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"If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another."
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"The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!"
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"You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody"
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"Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball."
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