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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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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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Personal Development
"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."
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Personal Development
"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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Personal Development
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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Personal Development
"The body has a mind of its own."
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Personal Development
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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Personal Development
"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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Personal Development
"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
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Personal Development
"The body is not a reliable friend."
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Personal Development
"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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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
"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."
Thought
"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."
Leadership
"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."
Now
"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
Emotional
"Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there."
Kids
"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor."
Actor
"I think there are some players born to play ball."
Sports
"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."
Ambition
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