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You observe a lot by watching.

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.

Babe Ruth

That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.

Bill Veeck

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing.... I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Mike Schmidt

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Lefty Gomez

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

Cy Young

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

Wade Boggs

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage someday. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does

Leonard Koppett

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing

Warren Spahn

The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?

Johnny Mize

Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years

Cy Young

You can't think and hit at the same time

Yogi Berra

Pitch within yourself

Tom Seaver

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it

Ted Williams

Most one-run games are lost, not won

Gene Mauch

Nobody ever said, "Work ball!" They say, "Play ball!" To me, that means having fun

Willie Stargell

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation

Leroy Robert

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Art Rust

Baseball is what gets inside you, it lights you up, its supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The HARD is what makes it great

Unknown

When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake

Matt Williams

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody

Mike Piazza

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved

Red Smith

Love America and hate baseball? Hate America and love baseball? Neither is possible, except in the abstract

John Krich

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