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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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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"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."
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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
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"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too."
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