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The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

They ought to create a new league for that guy.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

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

This guy from L.A. sits down next to me, and he says "you like baseball?" I said, "Oh, man, I love baseball." So he goes "Did you know that if Jesus had played ball, he'd have been the greatest ball player ever?" Like I'm gonna argue with that logic. So I sat there for a second, and then I said "did you know that if Babe Ruth had been the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs at Communion?" He left.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.