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The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
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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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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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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vern Law
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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 would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller
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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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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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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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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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Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.
Hank Aaron
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Why do people sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the stadium when they're already there?
Larry Andersen
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Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.
Yogi Berra
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I really haven't even thought about it," he said. "If I somehow miraculously made it to the All-Star Game, I would be floored. I'd really be totally humbled by that. I'm just happy right now to play, to produce and to be with a good group of guys.
Milton Bradley
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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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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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Accomplishment is something you can't buy. If you have a chance and don't make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente
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The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
Ty Cobb
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There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. … It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.
Johnny Damon
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First of all, paleontologists don't believe one another on their own discoveries—how can I believe in people who don't even believe in it themselves? And biblically, there's no mention of dinosaurs. According to the word of the Bible, Adam had dominion over all animals; according to man, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. So either God's a liar, or…well, I don't believe that God's a liar.
Carl Everett
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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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All the big sportswriters seemed to enjoy writing about me as an ignorant cotton-mill boy with nothing but lint where my brains ought to be. That was all right with me. I was able to fool a lot of pitchers and managers and club owners I wouldn't have been able to fool if they'd thought I was smarter.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
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A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
Sandy Koufax
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I think the key to that particular play was the throw. I knew I had the ball all the time. In my mind, because I was so cocky at that particular time when I was young, whatever went in the air I felt that I could catch. That's how sure I would be about myself. When the ball went up I had no idea that I wasn't going to catch the ball. As I'm running — I'm running backwards and I'm saying to myself, "How am I going to get this ball back into the infield?"
Willie Mays
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Home plate is home plate regardless where you play. It don't move.
Satchel Paige
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