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204 quotes found searching on Position: OF It’s an award I hope I never win again.Adam Troy Dunn That's a clown question, bro.6/2/2012 Hell, if I'd known 40–40 was going to be a big deal, I'd have done it every year!Mickey Charles Mantle If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have ten more.Chicago Cubs OF In football I was a running back, so in the NFL my career would have probably lasted six or seven years and in baseball I ended up playing 23 years. In baseball you can play a long time so I think it's better when you think of it in that way.Timothy "Tim" Raines You hear pitching coaches talking about your rookies and they'll say, "This guy is going to be a real good middle-innings pitcher."... What it really means is you never get that fourth at-bat against a great pitcher. I used to have to face Jim Palmer in maybe three or four games a year, and the first two or three at-bats against him were tough, believe me. But the fourth time up I thought maybe I had a chance. Nowadays, that pitcher is out of the game by then and you're looking at a sinker-baller like (Dan) Quisenberry or a Jay Howell throwing gas. That good last at-bat is gone.Oakland Athletics OF It's a great game, but I feel like a prisoner who's been set free. Baseball to me was more work than play -- in fact it was all work. I was lucky enough to lead the league (in batting) when I was twenty years old, and after that I wanted to lead it every year. I never thought I was any genius, so I gave my life to the game for twenty-five years. It was a constant battle and it wore me out. I must have been in about 30,000 plays and I tried to think about every play and how it should be made. I believed in putting up a mental hazard for the other fellow. Every play was a problem of some sort. That's what I mean by the strain and grind of twenty-five years.In the early 1930's It don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson Can't. I've stolen too many bases. They'd use that against me.After the 1911 season I'll tell you how well I remember you, Joe. Whenever I got the idea that I was a good hitter I'd stop and take a good look at you. Then I knew I could stand some improvement.Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 next Search for quotes here! You can put in multiple words, or if you want to search on a particular phrase, "wrap it in quotes". |
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