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"I think you come to watch baseball, and if you're a true fan, then you enjoy watching baseball. MLB tries to change this and change that, speed up the games, but baseball's baseball. You can't change it. It's America's pastime. It's the greatest game on earth. I don't really want to change it that much."
"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball."
"It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties."
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)"
"A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first."
"Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical."
"I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?"
"I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball."
"Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players."
"Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century."
"Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I learned about the game. Like pacing yourself, focusing yourself, preparing yourself for what you want to do, keeping yourself healthy for the game. I do all that through the eyes of a ballplayer."
"A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice"
"I always get very calm with baseball."
"Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating."
"Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game."
"I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly."
"In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball."
"I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them."
"Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire."
"Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning."
