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"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."
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"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
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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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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch."
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"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."
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"I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care."
People
"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
Gold
"Fans don't boo nobodies."
Identity
"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
Management
"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."
Baseball
"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money."
Money
"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."
God
"When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity."
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"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
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