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"I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to."
"I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me."
"I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!"
"Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us."
"Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player."
"If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!"
"Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders."
"Baseball is 50% from the neck up"
"A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours."
"I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people."
"It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times."
"I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally."
"A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party."
"Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on."
"I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State."
"The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids."
"There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark."
"Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world."
"What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."
"If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?"
