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"Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms."

"I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball."

"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."

"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."

"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"

"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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