"Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No."
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"People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream."
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"I hope this serves as a light for others who come into the league as undrafted players."
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"I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" ."
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"I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it."
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"If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball."
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"A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not."
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"Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues."
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"It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is."
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"Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
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"There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part."
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"I feel like I'm the best point guard in the league."
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"If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh."
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"You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year."
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"Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league."
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"I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else."
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"My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies."
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"I really have never been nervous in the big leagues."
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"If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that."
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"Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for."
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