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I love the game of baseball. -- Dusty Baker
I love the game of baseball. -- Dusty Baker
Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad. -- Roberto Alomar
I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball. -- Pete Rose
In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.' -- Mark McGwire
In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball. -- Wade Boggs
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game. -- William Howard Taft
That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen. -- Mariano Rivera
Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you. -- Babe Ruth
God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball. -- Lance Berkman
I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform. -- Stan Musial
You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.' -- Joaquin Andujar
I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much. -- Rickey Henderson
What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. -- Pete Rose
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. -- Carlos Delgado
Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game. -- Ken Rosenthal
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. -- Alvin Dark
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball. -- Eddie Murray
There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball. -- Tommy John
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball. -- Babe Ruth
It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball. -- Barry Bonds
Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball. -- Andrew McCutchen
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision. -- Jeff Greenfield
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams. -- Pete Rose
The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about -- Cal Ripken, Sr.
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. -- William Howard Taft
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent. -- Brad Lidge
When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad. -- Roberto Alomar
Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it. -- Roger Clemens
I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy. -- Mark McGwire
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. -- Lou Brock
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game. -- Pete Rose
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. -- Jorge Posada
When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there. -- Roberto Alomar
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared. -- Waite Hoyt
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend. -- Manny Sanguillen
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled. -- Michael Chabon
Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me. -- Lou Boudreau
Baseball is a game of inches. -- Branch Rickey
I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all. -- Dave Winfield
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. -- Buzz Bissinger
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. -- Jim Jarmusch
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. -- Joe Torre
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. -- John Leonard
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. -- Bob Feller
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing. -- Bill Buckner
There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball. -- Alex Gibney
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. -- John Thorn
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day. -- Kevin James
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. -- Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a team game. -- Eddie Murray
Baseball is our national game. -- Calvin Coolidge
Baseball is a game of the soul. -- Pedro Martinez
Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game. -- Ernest Kurtz
Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. -- Yogi Berra
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. -- Willie Mays
There is but one game and that game is baseball. -- John McGraw
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry. -- Bill Veeck
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion. -- Bill Klem
The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments. -- Orel Hershiser
Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds. -- Red Smith
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. -- Phil Linz
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball. -- Babe Ruth
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. -- Joe DiMaggio
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion. -- Bill Klem
Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it. -- CC Sabathia
I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game. -- David Wright
As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat. -- Jerry Seinfeld
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. -- Earl Wilson
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. -- George Carlin
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game. -- Leigh Steinberg
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. -- Walt Whitman
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it. -- Bill Terry
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. -- Will Rogers
Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game. -- Pete Rose
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. -- Juliana Hatfield
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. -- Rickey Henderson
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules. -- Nate Silver
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. -- Buzz Bissinger
A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game. -- Peter Ueberroth
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. -- Dave Bristol
Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is, -- Joe Torre
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. -- Babe Ruth
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it. -- Babe Ruth
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. -- Ryan Reynolds
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. -- William Feather
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. -- Vin Scully
To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special. -- Daniel Hudson
Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game. -- Joe Buck
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. -- Ty Cobb
Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers. -- Dan Jenkins
People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game. -- Johnny Damon
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. -- Lou Gehrig
Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game. -- Don Mattingly
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. -- Nate Silver
My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game. -- Jurnee Smollett
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. -- Pete Rose
Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for. -- Dick Enberg
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure. -- Herbert Hoover
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
When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something. -- Rollie Fingers
You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game. -- Red Ruffing
Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be. -- Mary McGrory
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. -- George Will
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. -- Rod Kanehl
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. -- Jackie Robinson
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it. -- Thomas Boswell
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to. -- Herb Caen
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain. -- Casey Stengel
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. -- John Lee Hooker
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain. -- Casey Stengel
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does. -- Bob Costas

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