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~ The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. ~

Ty Cobb

~ Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer ~

Ted Williams

~ No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined ~

Paul Gallico

~ Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living ~

Phil Linz

~ Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror ~

George Carlin

~ Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball ~

Ken Harrelson

~ You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all ~

Earl Weaver

~ The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays. ~

Lawrence Ritter

~ Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people ~

Steve Busby

~ Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living ~

Alvin Dark

~ Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball ~

Pete Hamill

~ Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot ~

Dick Gregory

~ 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

~ Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too ~

Greg

~ Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is ~

Bob Feller

~ I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it ~

Carl Yastrzemski

~ Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets ~

Yogi Berra

~ You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all ~

Earl Weaver

~ Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success ~

Sparky Anderson

Bob Feller

~ Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. ~

Alvin Dark

~ When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball ~

Pete Rose

~ The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends ~

Tommy Lasorda

~ I think a baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment ~

Lowell Cohn

~ In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end ~

Tom Seaver

~ Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. ~

Willie Mays

~ If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. ~

Mike Schmidt

~ You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time ~

Jim Bouton

~ People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring ~

Rogers Hornsby

~ 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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