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"I always get very calm with baseball."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
Dance
"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."
Heart
"We've survived by believing our life is going to get better."
Life
"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."
Pen
"One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it."
Criticism
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
Silence
"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."
Faith
"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
Job
"We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing."
People
"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
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"You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight."
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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