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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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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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"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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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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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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"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."
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"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
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"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
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"With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them."
Men
"No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness."
Greatness
"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds."
Crowds
"My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm."
Wind
"Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand."
Fault
"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."
Winning
"There is but one game and that game is baseball."
Baseball
"Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way."
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