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You just cant predict baseball

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

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

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

Your country is bigger than baseball.

You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

After being maligned for his lack of offense for much of his career, [César] Gerónimo batted .280 with two home runs, a triple, three runs, and three RBIs vs. Boston during the 1975 World Series, and then he batted .308 with two doubles, two steals, and three runs vs. New York during the 1976 World Series. The man who’s defense Sparky Anderson called 'ungodly' became an offensive star on baseball’s biggest stage.

[A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be.

A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it is now quite literally the cornerstone of one of America’s greatest ballparks.(Fenway)

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

An alluring woman need not bat an eyelash to hit a homer and steal a man's heart.

Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away- far, far and away- the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is. [Eric Walker]

As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.