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The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The game isn't over till it's over.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

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.

The hats of all eras thrill me. People don't wear them anymore. So when you see an outfit completed by a hat (that's for men too) it's thrilling. Especially if it's a Cloche from the 20's or a "Peter Pan" from the 30's, a Homburg from the 50's, or a Stingy Brim from the 60's. It's time stamping. Today everybody just wants to wear a baseball cap!

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

The Mets has come along slow, but fast!

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.