Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

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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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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

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Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

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