Favorite Quotes

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What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray

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You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~Duke Snider, 1975

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There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~Charlie Lau, 1982

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It actually giggles at you as it goes by. ~Rick Monday, on Phil Niekro's knuckleball, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1 August 1983

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The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~Bob Uecker

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I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. ~Author Unknown

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To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. ~Steve Hovley, 1969

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A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978

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Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981

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Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. ~Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, "Letters from the Nation," 20 October 2003

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~Ty Cobb

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. - Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"

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Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. ~Philip Wrigley

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Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian

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Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975

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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola, Baseball is a Funny Game

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Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry

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Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder

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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck

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When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977

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What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher

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Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox

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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer

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Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." ~Author Unknown

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I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren