Major League Quotes - Page 4

• On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Country, Taken

  "Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies", edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2006.

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• God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

  Hafez

  Believe, Mean, Blessing

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• The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

  George Allen

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

  Lou Whitaker

  Dream, Kids, Men

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• I've face more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Two, Faces

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• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  Alan Hansen

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Dream, New York

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

  Darrell Hammond

  League, Incredibles, Majors

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• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, League

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  Barry Bonds

  Education, Kids, League

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Kids, League

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Dream, Hero

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• I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Jobs, Home

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• Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)

  Eddie Harris

  Real, Curves, Two

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• Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

  George Brett

  Struggle, People, League

  Interview with C. Trent Rosecrans, www.cbssports.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

  Monte Irvin

  Baseball, Sorry, Athlete

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• I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Average, Years

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• Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Father, Two

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

  Gary Carter

  Kids, Winning, Thinking

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• My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Eye, League

  "Canseco: 'My Motive Is to Attack Major League Baseball'" by Martin Bashir and Mary Marsh, abcnews.go.com. March 27, 2008.

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• As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

  Roy Clarke

  Pride, Makeup, Player

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, League, Pirate

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• She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Baseball, Umpires, League

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• A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, People, League

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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