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I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

If you don't play to win, why keep score?

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.

If you know how to cheat, start now.