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  The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator
 ~famous baseball sayings by Thomas Boswell

  Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
 ~inspirational sayings about Baseball quotes by Bill Veeck, 1975

  Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
 ~baseball quotes by Bill Veeck

  Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
 ~famous quotes about Baseball by Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990

  They can hollar at the uniform all they want, but when they hollar at the man wearing the uniform, they're in trouble
 ~baseball sayings by Umpire Joe Brinkman

  I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
 ~famous baseball sayings by Casey Stengel, 1967

  Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
 ~inspirational sayings about Baseball quotes by The Villains in Blue, Time magazine, 25 August 1961

  What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
 ~baseball quotes by George Bernard Shaw

  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.
 ~famous quotes about Golf by Ken Harrelson

  If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
 ~baseball sayings by Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970

  It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
 ~famous baseball sayings by Denis Norden

  Don't park in the spaces marked, Reserved for Umpires.
 ~inspirational sayings about Baseball quotes by John McSherry

  Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes
 ~baseball quotes by Bobby Bonilla

  A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
 ~famous quotes about Jobs by William C. Feather

  Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.
 ~baseball sayings by Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, Letters from the Nation, 20 October 2003

   Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
 ~famous baseball sayings by Chinese Proverb

   No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
 ~good sayings about Critics by Michel Montaigne

   Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
 ~baseball quotes by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back

   [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
 ~motivational quotes about War sayings by Isaac Asimov

   Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them.
 ~baseball sayings by Author Unknown

   I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
 ~famous baseball sayings by James Baldwin

   Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
 ~good sayings about Attitude by Martin Luther King, Jr.

   Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
 ~baseball quotes by Polybius

   Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
 ~motivational quotes about Happiness sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Evolution is individual - devolution is collective.
 ~baseball sayings by Martin H. Fischer

   I hate music, especially when it's played.
 ~famous baseball sayings by Jimmy Durante

   The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage.
 ~good sayings about Curmudgeons by Terri Guillemets

   The answer, maybe, is going out & doing rather than waiting. If you wait, life will probably pass you by. But if you go out & do the things you want to, take the risks you fear, you may just find that everything slots into place.
 ~baseball quotes by Rob E. Geraghty

   Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature
 ~motivational quotes about Earth Day sayings by Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

   The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
 ~baseball sayings by Katherine Whitehorn

   Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
 ~famous baseball sayings by John W. Gardner

   The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
 ~good sayings about Miscellaneous by Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965

   When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best
 ~baseball quotes by Leslie Grossman

   Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
 ~motivational quotes about Hugs sayings by Author Unknown

   Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old
 ~baseball sayings by Mary H. Waldrip

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