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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. -- Mike Schmidt
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well. -- Roger Clemens
I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better. -- Evan Longoria
With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best. -- Alex Rodriguez
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field. -- Vida Blue
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. -- Tom Hayden
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment. -- Jim Lefebvre
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail. -- Jeff Kent
I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been in a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no. -- Alex Rodriguez
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't? -- Michael Lewis
I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike. -- John C. McGinley
Every life lesson is on that baseball field. -- Goose Gossage
Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure. -- Goose Gossage
I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better. -- Doug Harvey
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. -- Mike Royko
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime. -- Pete Rose
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up. -- Michael B. Jordan
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. -- Juliana Hatfield
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. -- Jim Fowler
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. -- Bryce Harper
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -- Ted Williams
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
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. -- Suzanne Fields
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! -- Bea Arthur
The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%. -- Jim Evans
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. -- Ken Harrelson
When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade. -- Ryan Sypek
When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be. -- Billy Beane
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper. -- J. R. Moehringer
It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round. -- Rafer Johnson
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you. -- Chad Harbach
I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.' -- Rick Santorum
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. -- Lou Boudreau
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave -- Durwood Merrill
When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball. -- Eric Byrnes
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. -- Warren Buffett
The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe. -- Robin Williams
My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk. -- Brian Regan
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad. -- Nellie Fox
For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story. -- Mariah Nelson

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