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Baseball Quotes
"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special."
"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
"Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted."
"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys."
"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
"President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards."
"It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids."
"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."
"When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade."
"I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes."
"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff."
"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."
"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."
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