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" Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. "
Baseball
Pink
Tea
" Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. "
Life
My Life
Percent
" Don't come home a failure. "
Home
Failure
Come
" Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. "
Sports
More
Theory
" I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch. "
My Life
Survive
Me
" I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. "
Down
You
Right
" I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. "
Never
May
Fierce
" I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. "
Fire
Me
Never
" I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. "
College
Day
Doctor
" Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference. "
Great
Speed
Asset
" The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. "
Feet
Business
Rules
" The crowd makes the ballgame. "
Ballgame
Sports
Makes
" The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. "
War
Game
American
" The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. "
Great
Money
Today
" The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field. "
Accept
Understand
Stupid
" To get along with me, don't increase my tension. "
Tension
Get
Increase
" When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. "
Game
Kick
Playing
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