"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."

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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."

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"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."

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

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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."

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"I don't care who you are, you hear those boos."

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