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"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."
"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'"
"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."
"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."
"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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