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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.