Bill Lee
Bill Lee
Former major league left-handed pitcher who became known for his iron-like durability on the field and unfiltered personality off of it.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 December 1946
CityBurbank, CA
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Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.
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You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
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Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
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Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.
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I felt like we controlled the line of scrimmage and that's what it's all about. Those guys we have up front are the ones who are laying it on the line to give us time to throw and we definitely couldn't run like we have been running.
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Frankly, I'm glad he wasn't here. When he plays Lake Region gets a nasty edge.
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Our defense just has guys and coaches that have a lot of pride and heart. They take it serious when it comes to keeping teams out of the end zone. They bow up when they have to.
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This is the first time that the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice has filed against a hotel chain on a nationwide basis.
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Part of the fun is watching kids take batting practice and run around the field and create memories.
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This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines. But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law.