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Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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.

If you're not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, probably don't show up in the morning paper.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.