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You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

You can't win them all but you can try.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

You get what you earn.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 country is bigger than baseball.

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.

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

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

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