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masters the boredom of repetition will become a better player" unknown
"Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing" Warren Spahn
"When I get through managing I'm
going to open a kindergarten" Billy Martin
"He stopped everything behind the
plate and hit everything in front of it" Mel Ott referring to Yogi Berra
"I'd walk me" Willie McCovey, when
asked how he'd pitch to himself
"Any ballplayer that don't sign
autographs for little kids ain't American" Rogers Hornsby
"You don't save a pitcher for
tomorrow. Tomorrow it might rain" Leo Durocher
"I never questioned an umpire's
integrity, just his eyesight" Tommy Lasorda
"If they came to Josh Gibson today
and he were 17 years old, they would have a blank spot on the contract and
they'd say, "Fill the amount in." That's how good he was" Baseball Digest, June
1969
"All I want out of life is when I
walk down the street , people will say " there goes the greatest hitter that
ever lived."" Ted Williams
"It could be...... It might be.......
It is! A home run!" Cubs broadcaster, Harry Caray
"It's a great day for baseball, let's
play two!" Ernie Banks
"I don't want to embarrass any other
catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench" Sparky Anderson
"You can learn a little from victory.
You can learn everything from defeat." Christy Mathewson
"Best one-legged player I ever saw"
Casey Stengel about Mickey Mantle
"Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank
Aaron is like trying to sneak sunrise past a rooster" Curt Simmons (pitcher)
"May the sun never set on American
baseball!" Harry S. Truman
"There is more to life than baseball,
well not much more! Bob Feller HOF'62
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