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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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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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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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"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
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"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'"
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"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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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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"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."
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"Hitting is better than sex."
Sex
"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."
God
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
Difference
"I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose."
Hate
"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
"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
Baseball
"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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"In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium."
People
"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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