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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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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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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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"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
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"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."
Fun

"Hitting is better than sex."
Sex

"Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it."
God

"I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose."
Hate

"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money."
Money

"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."
Baseball

"When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity."
Thought

"In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium."
People

"You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight."
Baseball

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."
Management
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