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The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players. -- Jim Courier
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams. -- Charlie Rose
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. -- Tommy Lasorda
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? -- Jim Bouton
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else. -- Brooks Robinson
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want. -- Billy Williams
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. -- Jennie Finch
Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that. -- Bryce Harper
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. -- Ichiro Suzuki
I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again. -- Chadwick Boseman
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements. -- Ali Farahnakian
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it. -- David Cone
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others. -- Bill Dedman
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. -- James Surowiecki
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. -- Christy Mathewson
Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle. -- Yoenis Cespedes
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come. -- Jennie Finch
In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love. -- Matt Kemp
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire. -- Jackson Browne
To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like. -- Dave Winfield
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. -- Martina Hingis
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? -- Jay Mohr
It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players. -- Gabe Paul
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. -- Barry Bonds
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball -- Barry Bonds
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids. -- Ken Caminiti
Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. -- Chuck Dressen
It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best. -- Bryce Harper
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player. -- Eric Gagne
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs. -- Jim Bunning
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons. -- Red Barber
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. -- Peter Ueberroth
More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves. -- John Eskow
When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good. -- Johan Santana
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. -- Pierre Trudeau
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do. -- Harmon Killebrew
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do, -- Harmon Killebrew
Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players. -- George Carlin
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell. -- Michael Cera
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. -- Sparky Anderson
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse. -- Bill Veeck
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test. -- Bob Costas
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them. -- Stephen Rodrick
Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it. -- Paul Ormerod
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee
Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. -- George Vecsey
When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players. -- Bruce Sutter
It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball. -- Rickey Henderson
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up? -- Chick Hearn
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' -- John Thorn
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? -- George Archer
People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands. -- Dennis Eckersley
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on. -- James Toney
It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball. -- Jose Peralta

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