Quotes in 'baseball' Topic

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I was playing baseball for Penn Hills, some guys saw me and kind of recruited me to play basketball.

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I think it's turned into one of the top five leagues in college baseball. There is just a lot of tremendous tradition.

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I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its infancy. Breaking the color barrier,

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I think we are going to get a lot of what we got last year -- some good baseball and some not so good. I think they still need a slugger at first base. Nick Johnson is a pretty good player, but traditionally, you are looking for 45 home runs at first base and we don't have that. We have to make it up at other places. I'm pretty happy with their acquisition. They really strengthen their bench and that was a big thing.

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I think Travis still has better baseball left in him. He could be a good catalyst for us in this tournament.

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It is nice to have guys back that you have coached before. You hope they would teach the younger players the ropes and also how to be a baseball player in this program. They are nice leaders, now I just hope the others follow.

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It is necessary that the best players be sent to Beijing so that there is high-quality baseball.

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I was watching the baseball game on ESPN -- I can't even remember who the teams were now -- and I could feel it, ... You know how it feels when something wobbles and it gets to a point where it's not coming back? That's exactly how it felt and I said, 'Oh, no.'

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I was happy with the way we played. I think we are playing better baseball right now.

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I still haven't been able to find a baseball player who has had this. You think about elbows, shoulders, ankles, knees, but this is definitely a different thing.

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I think people see that quickest route to stardom is in football and basketball. In basketball, you can come from college and go straight to the pros. Football is the same way. In baseball, it takes longer. You have to go through the minor leagues. There aren't that many kids playing Little League baseball. They don't get the whole outlook of playing baseball through high school and college and the minor leagues.

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I think everybody in baseball knows he's a good player. Playing in Tampa Bay like he did and then going to Seattle ... when you play in the same outfield with Ichiro (Suzuki), you're not going to be top dog, that's for sure.

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I tell you, when you think about playing football, baseball, soccer, well, everyone knows how to run or walk. But skating is very unnatural. It's the development of that talent, then kicking the speed up a couple of notches, and it's just very thrilling.

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I think in a certain sense, we lost through history what it meant for a black Latino to break into the game. And that's partly because folks kind of looked at the story of baseball as two distinct eras, of segregated and integrated and forget about the folks who made the transition.