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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Bill Veeck

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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Baseball Men People
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
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.
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Baseball Basketball Football
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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.
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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!…
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Baseball Reading Wall
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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Bats Sound Spring
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball

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