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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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"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch."
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"We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding."
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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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"My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day."
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"We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to."
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"When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running."
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"Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels."
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