"Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think."
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"I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world."
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"Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost."
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"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."
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"I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13."
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"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
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"Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete."
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"As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract."
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"Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life."
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"There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd."
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"Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero."
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"You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds."
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"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."
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"I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list."
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"Baseball needs more superstars."
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"Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds."
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"Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for."
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"I take positives out of negatives all the time."
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"Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?"
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