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Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
-Leo Durocher
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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
-Leo Durocher
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
-Leo Durocher
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It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like the fans of no other city. It was exciting to play there. It was a treat. I walked into that crummy, flyblown park as Brooklyn manager for nine years, and every time I entered, my pulse quickened and my spirits soared.
-Leo Durocher
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
-Leo Durocher
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I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
-Leo Durocher
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-Gerald Early
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When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley
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Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
-Joe Garagiola
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
-George Brett
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It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
-A Bartlett Giamatti
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
-Tommy Henrich
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
-Rogers Hornsby
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Fans don't boo nobodies.
-Reggie Jackson
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We were good and we were confident. We really never had any doubt that we were going to win it all.
-Reggie Jackson
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Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
-Rod Kanehl
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Hit em where they ain't.
-Willie Keeler
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The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
-W.P. Kinsella
James Earl Jones as Terence Mann, in the movie Field of Dreams
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
-Ray Knight
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When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
-Vance Law
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All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'
-Mickey Lolich
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Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
-Ron Luciano
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I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You can't win any game unless you are ready to win.
-Connie Mack
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It is more profitable for me to have a team that is in contention for most of the season but finishes about fourth. A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don't have to give the players raises when they don't win.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Mack_Connie.stm
-Connie Mack
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