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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.

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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred!

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To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

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I only have one: whenever I hit a home run I make certain to touch all four bases.

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What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me.

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There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.

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I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!"

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

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