I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull.
BILL LEEYou realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day.
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You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It’s a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
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The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.
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The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
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The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?
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Smoking’s a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody’s nicer. It’s hard to be mean when you’re stoned.
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Alcohol is like anything else. It’s only as bad as the person it’s being poured into. If it’s used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don’t see a problem.
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You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I’ll show you a pennant. I’ll show you the New York Yankees.
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I’m mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I’d be remembered forever. Now, I’ll have to throw him another.
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The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he’s going to be.
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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.
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I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That’s when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.
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I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had.
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You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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Pretty soon you’re convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.
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