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When you play this game 20 years, go to bat 10,000 times, and get 3,000 hits, you know what that means? you've gone 0 for 7,000. (Quote by - Pete Rose)
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. (Quote by - John Leonard)
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit. (Quote by - Tim McCarver)
How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs? (Quote by - Robert Bo Belinsky)
Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment. (Quote by - Rocky Bridges)
I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. (Quote by - Bob Lemon)
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)
It's hard to win when you can't keep the ball in the ballpark. I don't think they could hit more home runs if you told them what was coming. I don't think they could hit any more if it was batting practice. (Quote by - Dusty Baker)
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." (Quote by - Willie Stargell)
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. (Quote by - Gene Autry)
He's like an amusement-park ride - Even for guys who play. (Quote by - Ruben Amaro)
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper. (Quote by - Jane Goodsell)
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. (Quote by - Red Smith)
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. (Quote by - James Kilpatrick)