Quotes about baseball
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there. Adrian Gonzalez
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I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard. Adrian Beltre
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You know, he was pumped when I just walked over to him. That was pretty neat. It puts things into perspective as a baseball player. Mike Redmond
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You know, from our perspective, we'd love to ... you know, we want to support the Baseball Classic but it's actually a plus for us that he's coming here March 1st and not playing there. O. Henry
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Pensacola has always been a baseball town. I want us to play as much here as possible. We want to put a good product on the field.
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Our guys are ready to go out and play baseball though. I think we're playing with confidence, playing well. The team is coming together. We had a goal to win the region (Region VI), we did that; we had a goal to win the district; we're one win away from that, and we're focused on finishing the district.
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Our guys are just playing great baseball right now. Things can always change in the blink of an eye, but I think this bunch will stay focused and take this season one game at a time.
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Our goal is to win as many games or more this year as last year. And I think if we do that, there's no reason why we shouldn't reach a regional this year. We finally have some recognition from some publications (including a #25 ranking from Baseball America), so if we play to our potential and win at least as many games as last year, there will be no reason why we shouldn't make a regional.
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Our interest in being involved in football, baseball and basketball is undiminished, ... We're just not prepared to be in it at the price they're charging. If the price changes and everyone comes to their senses, we'll be a bidder. But we don't think it's worth losing hundreds of millions. If the folly continues, I think it's unlikely we'll be back in it.
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Over the last four years, Schmidgall has proven that he is one of the best players to ever wear a Western Illinois University baseball jersey. His play has been consistent and steady throughout his career. I believe the best is yet to come this season from him, and I believe that a lot of his records will stand for a long time.
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Owner input would be very useful -- the sooner the better, and hopefully baseball understands that.
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Our pitching is right there, and we just have to have to play clean baseball to win.
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Our pitching is pretty close to where we need to be. I think we're going to be fine. It's not going to get easier going into Cleveland (this weekend). We're going to be playing a lot of good baseball teams early, so you're not going to be able to breathe. You've got to keep grinding. Ron Gardenhire
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Our pitchers were tiring a little. The game, actually, looks like a blowout, but it was just a blowout in the sixth.
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Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played.
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Our starting pitching has been consistent and our bullpen seems to be stabilized. We are playing pretty good baseball right now.
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Our goal in this decision is to create a more intimate baseball atmosphere.
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Our feeling is this: I know the guys in our clubhouse. If they scheduled a game for 1 in the morning, we're going to show up and play, ... We have a tough schedule, but we're still playing baseball and we're getting to do something we enjoy. Mike Scioscia
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Overall I was pleased with the spring. All the guys who played in the World Baseball Classic came back healthy. We're ready to go. Willie Randolph
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Our view is, it's going to be a huge, potentially historic season in baseball, and this is a programming form that could engage the fans.
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Outstanding. Even though he's still feeling a little bit under the weather from the food poison, he threw the baseball very well. He'll be good to go on Friday. Curt Young
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Our baseball is not for-rent baseball. Our team plays for the love of the game, for the love of the uniform we wear. We play for the love we have for our country.
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Stadiums started to paint seats red, white and blue. And instead of advertisements on the outfield walls, there were now recruitment signs for the service. You couldn't help but notice all of the patriotism around the country at baseball games.
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Spring training was a long time ago. He could be starting from ground zero as far as the baseball activities. Brian Sabean
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Spring Training is just a fun time. I really don't know how to explain it. Everyone's got new jokes and everyone is having fun with each other. You get to have your cake and eat it, too. You get to have a life. During the regular season, you don't because it's all day long -- baseball is at the end of the day. But here it's at the beginning of the day and then, with me, I'm going to go out and play golf every day for the next six weeks. Josh Beckett
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Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year. Conor Jackson
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Spring training brings $450 million a year to Florida. We built the field of dreams and they came. Now we need to fund the maintenance of the facilities or they will go. Let's keep baseball in Florida.
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Some of the things going on here kind of get you going and excited for the season. Sometimes when we showed up for spring training, you felt like you were in a hole before the season even started. With these guys coming in, there will be some kind of climb in payroll. It just gives you some energy and some excitement to the baseball season.
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That does not preclude a given club from going beyond that level, ... We believe it's time to get this spiraling payroll situation under some control. The idea is to stabilize.... We believe that in order to keep the game within reach of American baseball fan we have to do some payroll stabilization here.
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My mom has the baseball package and we watched the games. It was a weird feeling, like we made the playoffs and I didn't make the playoff roster.