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" After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. "
Habit
Run
Me
" As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. "
Him
Last
Baseball
" A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. "
Boy
Courage
Coward
" Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. "
Way
People
Heroes
" He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. "
Golf
Who
Cart
" Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. "
Ball
Hitting
Running
" I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. "
Love
Loved
Legs
" I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. "
Ability
Never
Natural
" I don't care who you are, you hear those boos. "
You
Who
Those
" If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. "
Long
Going
Better
" I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about. "
Could
You
Say
" I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. "
Baseball
Fight
Play
" It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. "
Playing
Your
Game
" It was all I lived for, to play baseball. "
Baseball
Lived
Play
" My views are just about the same as Casey's. "
Same
Casey
About
" Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. "
Roger
Ever
Ballplayer
" Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' "
Home
Time
Me
" Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. "
Body
Think
Sometimes
" The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game. "
Biggest
Game
Ever
" The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. "
Know
Baseball
Play
" Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. "
Time
Today
Good
" To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. "
Years
Yankee
Ever
" Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. "
Well
Nothing
Life
" When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. "
Home Run
Run
Where
" You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. "
You
Up
Easy
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