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And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. Willie Mays
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You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much. William Scott
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There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
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The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
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We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog
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The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. Whitey Ford
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day. Gabe Paul
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The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team. Ron Eastman
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The picture of the caboose was a no-brainer. The railroad helped build this city. As far as the baseball scene is concerned, you have to look at what people were doing a hundred years in Oneonta. Everyone played baseball. Jim Murphy
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The overall number of seats doesn't change. Those are pre- and post-game seats, not baseball seats. But we think it's worth the investment.
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The past two games, we've played five innings of good baseball. They continued to put pressure on us, and we just didn't make the plays.
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The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.
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That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. Don Yaeger
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Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it. CC Sabathia
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We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,
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We were still with them through three (quarters), though.
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Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.
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Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games. Jim Tressel
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I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, Adam LaRoche
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I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge. James Toney
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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here B. B. King
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We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.
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Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again? William Shakespeare