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"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth

"Fans don't boo nobodies."
- Reggie Jackson

"I had a better year than he did."
- Babe Ruth, when told that President Hoover made less than the $80,000 he was demanding in 1930.

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes.
Home plate don't move."
- Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something."
- Nolan Ryan

"I ain't ever has a job; I just always played baseball."
- Satchel Paige

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
- Ted Williams

"When you're in a slump, It's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove."
- Vance Law

"You don't save pitchers for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."
- Leo Durocher

"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen."
- Bob Lemon

"There are only two places in this league, first place and no place."
- Tom Seaver

"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
- George Brett

"Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when he's losing: nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
- Jackie Robinson

"Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose."
- Mike Schmidt

"A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him."
- Johnny Evers

"While you're playing ball, you're insulated. All the ballparks and big crowds have a certain mystique, you feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting you name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."

- Mickey Mantle

"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 *damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
- Earl Weaver

"I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive."
- Roberto Clemente

"When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I don't think my insurance company would think that's a good idea."
- Boston's Tim Wakefield, who pitched a complete-game six-hitter a day after being involved in a minor car accident, when it was suggested that he copy the pre-game routine before every start.

"That just shows you how this league has gone to hell."
- Left-hander Chuck Finley, on his selection as American League player of the week.

"The music sounds better, the wine tastes sweeter and the girls look better when we win."
- Mark Grace, after the Chicago Cubs ended a six-game losing streak.

"I wasn't scared. I just told them to give me all that hockey equipment."
- Roger Clemens who wore Mo Vaughn's forearm pad and Kevin Mitchell's shinguard to get his first major-league hit, after a series of shifts put the DH in left field, forcing the Boston pitcher to bat.

"There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature."
- Buck Martinez

"If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got.....nobody remembers them."
- Pee Wee Reese

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
- Wes Westrum.

"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?"
- Tommy Lasorda

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.
- Bob Veale

"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill."
- Babe Ruth