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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
-Hank Aaron
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
-Hank Aaron
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
-Hank Aaron
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I don't want them to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember me!
-Hank Aaron
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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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You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.
-Yogi Berra
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical
-Yogi Berra
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Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
-Yogi Berra
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If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .
-Yogi Berra
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
-Yogi Berra
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
-Yogi Berra
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It ain't over 'till it's over.
-Yogi Berra
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If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.
-Yogi Berra
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?
-Jim Boulton
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Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
-Jim Boulton
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Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Lou Brock
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Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
-Lou Brock, "International Herald Tribune", January 30, 1985
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You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
-Lou Brock
In Late Innings, by Roger Angell, 1977
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
-Ty Cobb
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A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.
-Max De Pree
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The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
-Glenn Dickey
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A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
-Joe Dimaggio
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
-Leo Durocher
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.
-Leo Durocher
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
-Leo Durocher
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Books about Baseball
