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I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day. -- Mark Walter
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. -- Rob Sheffield
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood. -- George Brett
Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it. -- Jim Bouton
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. -- George Vecsey
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. -- Mary Schmich
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old. -- Jane Leavy
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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. -- Jean Ingelow
I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. -- Roger Ebert
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. -- Joe DiMaggio
He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season. -- Lefty Gomez
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. -- Jimmy Connors
I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park. -- George Herman
Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers. -- David Letterman
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I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major. -- Tom Lehman
I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.' -- Jim Leyland
I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday. -- Curt Young
I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park. -- George Herman
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season. -- Stephen Rodrick
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films. -- Vidya Balan
Opening day is always so cool to be a part of and to people watch. The Pacific Classic, which I've had the privilege of riding in a couple of times, is great. Every day at Del Mar is fantastic. I love the smells, working out on the beach, running the stairs. It's just a healthy environment. I love it. -- Chantal Sutherland
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night. -- Peter J. Daniels
The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day. -- Felicia Hemans
The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life. -- Pete Townshend
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. -- Jack Kornfield
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. -- Victor Hugo
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! -- Isaac Watts
The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over. -- Alyssa Milano
The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, "What am I doing?!" -- Jack Handey
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. -- K. Lamb
Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation. -- Patrick Fabian
When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy? -- Nancy Lublin
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. -- Kenzaburo Oe

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