People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

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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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I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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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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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -Ted Williams

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You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living. - Roy Campanella

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I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

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You can't win unless you learn how to lose. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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