Quotes about baseball
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They'll put themselves back 20 years, ... If they think they can successfully ice 30 teams in the markets they're in right now and have a viable product, it's just not going to happen. Remember baseball? Baseball is just getting back to where it was before the '94 strike - and that's the national past time down here. Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.
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They'll be disciplined and fundamentally sound. We all learned baseball from the same guy.
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They hit the baseball. They'd get a guy on and drive him in. Mentally, we weren't in the game.
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They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.
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They know what's at stake. They know what we're all about, so we never have to talk about the winning streak and our goals. They know what our goals are, and our goals are to win championships. We don't talk about the streak. We just feel like that if we go out and we prepare ourselves fundamentally that we will win baseball games.
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It was just a hard-fought, well-played baseball game. The kids deserve a lot of credit for bouncing back after Friday.
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It was just a great baseball game. Win or lose, obviously you don't want to lose, but you could understand in a game like this. It's very rare we score one run in a baseball game, and it's very rare that they get shut out.
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It was just a good competitive high school baseball game. Juices flowing. The kids were competing and we competed until the last out.
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It was just a comfort level with the manager. He inherited those guys. Both of them are good baseball people and they're going to be offered other positions in the organization.
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They would definitely be in control of their own destiny ... But they still need a place to play and Major League Baseball still needs a presence in the Upper Midwest. Bill Lester
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They've played to much baseball for us to play like that at times. Some of the things we were doing we went over just yesterday.
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They've never seen so many big league players be in a tournament like this. And in a lot of Latin American countries, I think there's a lot of pride in baseball as a national sport. They want to see us representing Puerto Rico to the best of our abilities.
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It made my day. (Garner) had some tough times (in Milwaukee), but he's done very well and he's a terrific baseball man, no question about it. I had a chance to visit with both Phil and Cecil, and it's always a pleasure. Bud Selig
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It's like throwing a baseball straight up into the air. Unless you're throwing it really, really fast, it's eventually going to fall back down on you.
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It's like some sort of ordinary filing system for the mechanics of government, as opposed to a symbolic celebration and insight into what the state is all about. We have more appropriate buildings for our baseball and football teams than we do for out seat of governance.
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It's going to be a tough opening month. I think most of us are just looking forward to getting the season going and looking forward to the challenge of it. Hopefully we can get off to a good start and play the best baseball right away because it's not going to be an easy stretch. Joe Nathan
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It's going to come to an end. We know that. We're not talking about a 23-year-old rookie. We're talking about a 43-year-old guy who has been there, done that. Eventually -- whether it's the next two weeks or the next two years -- this thing is going to end. So I'm just grateful I had the opportunity to play baseball with him. As a kid who grew up as a Boston Red Sox fan to where I am today, it's been an honor. Jeff Bagwell
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It's going to come down to the wire, ... There's a lot of baseball left.
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It's going to stay here in Venezuela. Everyone knows Venezuela is a baseball powerhouse as the Caribbean Series proved. Now, we have to prove it in the Classic.
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It's going to be hard, because he hasn't played in one year, ... I don't care how good you are, baseball is a game of conditioning and timing. But, knowing him ? he's so strong mentally ? you never know. We'll see what happens. It's going to be very, very interesting to see. Orlando Cepeda
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It's going to be great for the long-range future of baseball to have that kind of talent in those countries. To think that it's spreading around the world makes me more excited. Dan Wheeler
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It's good those players are recognized, because it means a lot for all of them, and for the Latin players in the Negro Leagues. We are grateful for them. Baseball has gone through cycles, and times change, and this has been coming for a long time. Armando Benitez
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It's fun, competitive, I am good at it, and you don't need to depend on any sort of team like basketball, baseball and football, you just depend on your skills and knowledge.
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It's easy to say you want a bunch of young guys. But no one's going to be happy whether you're young or old if you're not winning baseball games. The guys they brought in here are proven winners. They're leaders on the field and in the clubhouse. I think that's really important when you change the dynamic so much. Dave Roberts
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It?s easy to come out and play a baseball game when you?re picking up 18 to 20 wins a season. But you see what kids are made of when you go out when things don?t go your way.
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It shows you how good of a pitcher he was. He got in all that trouble, but baseball kept bringing him back. Ozzie Guillen
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It should have been done a long time ago. It's starting to look to us as if they are being forced to do it by baseball in order to look better or look the part. Jack Evans
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It's been a grind for us for a long time. We've been playing playoff baseball since April. Morgan Ensberg
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It's been a lot different. In years past, we focused on playing baseball games. From Day 1 (this year), we've gotten ready to win baseball games. We've focused more on little things, fundamental things. Ned Yost
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It's been our Achilles' heel all year long. We have one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and we just can't support them offensively. Ron Gardenhire
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It's gratifying to see how many people care about this organization and bringing championship baseball here. People care, they really care, and these are competent people that are part of this organization or want to be part of it. This is a hidden treasure here.
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Following the strike, I think the thing that brought people back to baseball was the big home run contest between Sosa and McGwire. Stephen F. Lynch
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Football was important, but baseball is my first love. I know I can play baseball longer for health reasons. I feel can be more successful in a sport that I love rather than something I just do well.