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A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

A full mind is an empty bat.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice

A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

All I had was natural ability.

All I have is natural ability.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.