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No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body.... As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands an complications.

Sadaharu Oh

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

Robert Frost

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to first! Then your body says who me?

Joe DiMaggio

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

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.

Daley

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

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Sandy Koufax

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love

Bryant Gumbel

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve

Jaja Q.

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them

Johnny Vander Meer

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way

Babe Ruth

Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals

Dick Williams

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage

Pete Rose

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching

Ferguson Jenkins

Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin's half pair of scissors - ineffectual

Moe Berg

Players who commit errors need reassurance from the pitcher, who must harbor no grudges.

Roger Craig

Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess

Dick Williams

The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series

Tommy Lasorda

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too

Branch Rickey

Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way

Whitey Herzog

It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable

Joe Garagiola

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