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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

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
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
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
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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Baseball Softball
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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Justice Men White
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars

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