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"Baseball is 90%
mental, the other half is physical"
Yogi Berra
"Baseball players
are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team
penalized for too many players on the field?"
Jim Bouton
"The other sports
are just sports. Baseball is a love."
Bryant Gumbel
"Every day is a
new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its
failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new
games every day, and that's the way baseball is."
Bob Feller
"A hot dog at the
ball park is better than steak at the Ritz"
Humphrey Bogart
"You look forward
to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something
wonderful is going to happen."
Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
"Slump ?? I ain't
in no slump. I just ain't hittin."
Yogi Berra
"Since baseball
time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly ;
keep hitting, keep the rally alive and you have defeated time. You
remain forever young."
Roger Angell
"Show me a guy
who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every
time."
Lou Brock
"Every member of
our baseball team at West Point became a General ; this proves the value
of team sports."
General Omar Bradley
"Baseball is
religion without the mischief."
Thomas Boswell
"There'll be two
buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o'clock bus will
be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will
leave at five o'clock."
David Bristol, Milwaukee Brewers Manager
"You gotta be a
man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little
boy in you."
Roy Campanella
"People ask me
what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I
do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
"One of the
beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come
into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down
and prove something."
Nolan Ryan
"A baseball club
is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic
contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting."
Michael Burke
"If I were
playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that
was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her
off and say, 'Sorry Mom, but nobody beats me'."
Leo Durocher
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