If you don't play to win, why keep score?

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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time. -Don Zimmer

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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

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There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. -Derek Jeter

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. -Rickey Henderson

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I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. - Reggie Jackson

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You can’t let the failures get you down. Learn from them, stay positive, and never give up. -Buster Posey

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — Heywood Broun

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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. - Bob Feller

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