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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vern Law
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog
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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?
Lou Gehrig
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson
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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella
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The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
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When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
Mark Fidrych
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Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
Duke Snider
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I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.
Tug McGraw
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If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
Omar Bradley
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Home plate is home plate regardless where you play. It don't move.
Satchel Paige
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I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.
Jim Abbott
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
Mickey Mantle
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
Pete Rose
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It's done a lot of players a lot of good. And obviously, this drug is a drug where it's dose-related. Anything in overdose will destroy your liver. I mean, look at cigarettes and look at liquor. Cigarettes says on the packet, this will kill you; it will cause cancer; and you're still smoking it.
José Canseco
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The Indians didn't help me in dealing with the media. I think they wanted to keep my market value down. I'm moody. I know that. I've made some mistakes, but if I was a bad person, would someone want to pay me $55 million, would I have a scholarship fund my mother runs that pays for kids to go to school?
Albert Belle
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People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.
Reggie Jackson
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Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
Billy Sunday
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As long as media is mass - when the consumer had no choice, when it was networks - you could fuck the consumer all day long with ring around the collar, because she had to get up and turn off the set to avoid it. With cable and interactive sets, with that remote control, you can't do that. It's got to be the polite invitation, instead of the harangue.
Don Pepper
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We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
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Each year I don't play, I get better. The first year on the banquet trail, I was a former ballplayer, the second year I was great, the third year one of baseball's stars, and just last year I was introduced as one of baseball's immortals. The older I get, the more I realize that the worst break I had was playing.
Joe Garagiola Sr.
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If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Jim Bouton
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
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Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood
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