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"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical" --Yogi Berra
"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
"Hitting is 50% above the shoulders." --Ted Williams
"You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life." --Pete Rose
"I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week." --Hank Aaron on Jackie Robinson
"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin." --Yogi Berra
"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." --Ted Williams
"Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve." --Jaja Q
"If a man can beat you, walk him." --Leroy (Satchel) Paige
"A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz." --Humphrey Bogart
"There's one word that describes baseball -- 'You never know.'" --Joquin Andujar
"He's like an amusement-park ride - Even for guys who play." --Ruben Amaro on Mark McGwire
"Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports." --Gen. Omar Bradley
"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something." -- Nolan Ryan
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." -- Bob Feller
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too." ~Roy Campanella
"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." ~Earl Wilson
"When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'" ~Willie Stargell
"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror." ~George Carlin
"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball." ~Jim Murray
"Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball." ~Ken Harrelson
"Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa." ~Bob Veale
"Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you." ~Reggie Jackson
"Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out." ~Joe Garagiola
"Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated." ~Author Unknown
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." ~Earl Weaver
"The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid." ~Don Drysdale
"A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves." ~Brendan Francis
"A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours." ~Ray Fitzgerald
"Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?" ~Larry Anderson
"It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!" ~Herbert H. Paper
"There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work." ~Charlie Lau
"It actually giggles at you as it goes by." ~Rick Monday, on Phil Niekro's knuckleball
"The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." ~Bob Uecker
"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." ~Greg, age 8
"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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