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DAY
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QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY
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1
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Baseball is like
church. Many attend few understand.
--Wes Westrum
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2
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America
had better learn baseball,
the rules and realities of the game.
--Jacques Barzun
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3
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Baseball is almost
the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
--Mark Beltaire
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4
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Baseball is ninety
percent mental. The other half is physical.
--Yogi Berra
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5
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The reason baseball
calls
itself a game, I believe, is that it is too screwed up to be a business.
--Jim Bouton
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6
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Baseball players
are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball
team
penalized for too many men on the field?
--Jim Bouton
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7
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You gotta be a man to play baseball
for
a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.
--Roy Campanella
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8
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I have found most baseball
players
to be afflicted with tobacco-chewing minds.
--Howard Cosell
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9
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There are only five things you can do in baseball
run,
throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
--Leo Durocher
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10
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand
hits in baseball.
I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
--Hank Aaron
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11
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I think there are only three things America will
be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the
Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
--Gerald Early
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12
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There is a fine line between success and failure.
In baseball,
the difference between a.350 hitter and a.250 hitter is only a 1/4 inch
up or down the bat.
--Mortimer Feinberg
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13
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Poets are like baseball
pitchers.
Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
--Robert Frost
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14
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Baseball is a game
of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the
rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms,
and the visiting team wears gray.
--Joe Garagiola
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15
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When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he found
a baseball that
Jimmy Foxx hit off me in 1937.
--Lefty Gomez
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16
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You're probably not a member of a major league
baseball
team,
your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning
paper.
--Jane Goodsell
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17
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Baseball is the only
sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.
--Ken Harrelson
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18
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Baseball has been
good to me since I quit trying to play it.
--Whitey Herzog
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19
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has
never played baseball.
--Elbert Hubbard
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20
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A good listener is like a catcher in baseball.
He keeps tossing the ball back for you to pitch.
--Franklin P. Jones
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21
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Baseball ought never
be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is
one reason, I think, we love it.
--James Kilpatrick
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22
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Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball
player.
--John Kruk
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23
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Baseball is the belly
button of society. Straighten out baseball
and
you'll straighten out the rest of the world.
--Bill Lee
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24
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Words can be like baseball
bats
when used maliciously.
--Sidney Madwed
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25
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Baseball happens
to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey
are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
--John Leonard
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26
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Playing baseball
is
not real life. It's a fantasy world. ... It's a dream come true.
--Dale Murphy
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27
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball
team.
It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of
every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
--David Ogilvy
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28
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Statistics are to baseball
what
a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
--Harry Reasoner
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29
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A baseball fan
is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than
an umpire standing five feet away.
-- Unknown
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30
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In the great department store of life, baseball
is
the toy department.
-- Unknown
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31
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were
counted and published every day, like those of a baseball
player.
-- Unknown
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