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Great Baseball Quotes
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination"
--Tommy Lasorda
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved"
--Red Smith
"In the beginning there was no baseball. But ever since then there have been few beginnings as good as the start of a new baseball season. It is the most splendid time in sports."
--B.J. Phillips
"Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed."
--Bill Veeck
"I ain't ever has a job I just always played baseball."
--Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
"Most games are lost, not won."
--Casey Stengel
"You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
--Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
--Earl Weaver
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Whitman on Baseball
"I see great things in baseball, it's our game-the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
--Walt Whitman
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious."
--Walt Whitman
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James Earl Jones on Baseball
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
--James Earl Jones as Terence Mann, in Field of Dreams
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