"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
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"There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years."
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"You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand."
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"Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game"
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"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball"
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
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"If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again."
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"Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems."
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"Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone."
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"When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."
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"You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather."
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"Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best."
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"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction."
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"Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial."
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"Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business."
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"I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before."
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"We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors."
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"The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe."
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"The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball."
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"And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?"
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