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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
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
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Frank Robinson, attributed
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner, 60 Minutes
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
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 R
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
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
Billy Martin
A full mind is an empty bat.
Branch Rickey
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
Robert Smith
Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.
Luke Salisbury
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
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
It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
