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Floyd Abrams

"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

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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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"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"

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"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."

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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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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's 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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Amber Hurdle

"I always get very calm with baseball."

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Amber Hurdle

"We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor."

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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York."
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"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
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"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."
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"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
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"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."
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"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
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"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
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