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" I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. "

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" Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat. "

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" I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed. "

" Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired. "

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" There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. "

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" When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up. "

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