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Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.