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Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night. Thomas Hearns
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I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power. Bobby Thomson
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Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. Kit Williams
american-athlete mind
I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story. Jimmy Piersall
american-athlete control
If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control. Carl Olson
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I love this, this is why you get off the couch to play this game. I've been fortunate to have played in a lot of big games, but it's still exciting. Roger Clemens
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
american-athlete classmates growing majority people
The majority of the people that I was growing up with were going off into the military. A lot of my classmates thought of going into the military. Herschel Walker
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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. Wilt Chamberlain
baseball football country
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Bobby Fischer
baseball play republic
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old. Albert Pujols
baseball trying important
I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.
baseball war names
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas MacArthur
baseball fun years
I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore. Doug Flutie
baseball games never-forget
I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game. Don Larsen
baseball games want
Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game. Don Mattingly
baseball character mean
Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.
baseball new-york father
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law. Don Baylor
close days either sick
There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.
close left mistreated proud raise
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. Lynn Johnston
close example good
We didn't know we had such a good example so close by. Mark Morris
close cool pros skate
What's cool about here is they won't just get their autographs, they'll get to skate with them and see the pros close up.
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What I've learned from working in New York politics is that the race is either really obvious, or too close to call, ... And this race is too close to call.
close fourth growth nice push rebound
What it will do is push up first-quarter growth probably close to 5.0 percent, so a nice rebound from the fourth quarter.
close gave
We gave it away in the seventh. We couldn't close it out.
close clutch few played until
We had a few walks, two really costly errors. And they had some clutch hitting. Up until then, we had played pretty well. We just didn't close like we could have.
close consistent game good weapon
We want to get the game to Doug Brown. He's been our most consistent pitcher, and we think we have a weapon at the end of the game. So if we can keep the game close and get it to him, then we feel pretty good about it. John Cole