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"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
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"And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else."

"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."

"Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?"

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."

"Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against."
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"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."

"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer."

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."

"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball."
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