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" A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. "
Earl Wilson
" A baseball manager is a necessary evil. "
Sparky Anderson
" A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. "
Reggie Jackson
" A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team. "
Cass McCombs
" A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' "
Bill Dickey
" A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game. "
Peter Ueberroth
" A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income. "
Douglas Brunt
" Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do. "
Wyatt Russell
" After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. "
Bob Uecker
" After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. "
Reggie Jackson
" Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it. "
Roger Clemens
" All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player. "
Tobin Bell
" All it takes to play baseball is a strong arm, good speed, and the coordination to hit the ball. That's it. "
Ryne Sandberg
" All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. "
Chrissie Hynde
" Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect. "
Vin Scully
" A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever. "
Jose Altuve
" Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. "
Ernie Harwell
" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "
David Grann
" Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit. "
Stan Musial
" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "
Philip Treacy
" American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. "
Chad Harbach
" American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not. "
Bastian Schweinsteiger
" And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. "
Curt Flood
" And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. "
Dave Winfield
" And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. "
Willie Mays
" And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. "
Parminder Nagra
" Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road. "
Sam Weller
" And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' "
John Thorn
" And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough. "
Nolan Ryan
" Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. "
Nate Silver
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