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In baseball, you can't try harder, you have to try easier. Instead of squeezing the sawdust out of the bat, you have to hold it like your child.

Matthew Derrick "Matt" Williams
Cleveland Indians
3B

There are only two seasons -- winter and baseball.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Contributed by: Ken Phifer

Not really -- they lean towards cash.

On whether free agents leaned towards bigger cities

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

Richard Alan Scheinblum
Cleveland Indians
OF

When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake.

Matthew Derrick "Matt" Williams
Cleveland Indians
3B

They can't get any rougher on us unless they show up with Uzis.

On the New York fans, before playing Game 6 of the 1998 ALCS.

David Christopher Justice
Cleveland Indians
OF

I have a good feeling about this club. But that could be gas.

Upon the Indians advancing to the 1998 ALCS.

Dudley Michael "Mike" Hargrove
Cleveland Indians
Manager

The Mets achieved total incompetence in a single year, while the Browns worked industriously for almost a decade to gain equal proficiency.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Veeck - as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck.

I don't blame the other club owners. We'd have walked away with the pennant.

After a general rejection of his idea to field a team of stars from the Negro National League as a solution for what the NL should do with the Phillies which was being operated by the League in World War II during the period after their owner, Gerry Nugent, gave up

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

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.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

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