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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.

To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

Today I am the greatest of all time.

Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.

To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.