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"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
Man
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
Sports
"When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me."
Coach
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
Hope
"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?"
Woman
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."
People
"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."
Talk
"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
Abuse
"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
Entertainment
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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Personal Development
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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Personal Development
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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Personal Development
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
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