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"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat."
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"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."
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"This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud."
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"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."
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"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
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"I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head."
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"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."
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"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."
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"If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings."
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"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."
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"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."
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"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."
Family
"Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there."
Kids
"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat."
Sports
"Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play."
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"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"
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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."
Leadership
"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates."
Management
"I think there are some players born to play ball."
Sports
"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor."
Actor
"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best."
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