Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
quote by Al Spalding
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
quote by William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Basketball (For Devyn)
In a world of football
and baseball, too,
basketball,
is all I want to do.
I would play football,
if Mom would permit.
But she can’t stand
to see me take a hit.
But Mom loves basketball
and so do I.
I love it, live it,
I want to fly.
You should see,
what I did today!
I am going all the way,
to the NBA.
Right now, I’m still growing,
I have growing pains.
But it will be worth it,
I’m the next Lebraun James.
poem by Tasha Miller
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I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
quote by Nolan Ryan
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I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
quote by Willie Mays
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I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
quote by Ryne Sandberg
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I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
quote by Nick Johnson
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As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
quote by Tris Speaker
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
quote by Rachel Griffiths
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
quote by Willie Mays
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
quote by Christy Mathewson
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The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
quote by Michael Lewis
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
quote by Ichiro Suzuki
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I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
quote by Ernie Harwell
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
quote by Willie Mays
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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.
quote by Jackie Robinson
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I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
quote by Dave Winfield
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My Sport-in Life
Golf, baseball and girls, scantily clad
Obsessions of mine when just a young lad
Not listed here in order of rank
Baseball came first, to be perfectly frank
Sports took a back seat as time flew on by
To girls, clad or not, to this more mature guy
Baseball and golf, great in their place
They can’t be compared to a females embrace
Now that I’m aged and much more mature
Girls, clad or not, are somewhat obscure
Golf, baseball and girls, scantily clad
Obsessions of mine, I’m glad to have had
poem by Stanley Cooper
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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
quote by Mike Krzyzewski
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