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All you ever want as a baseball player is the respect of your peers, whether it's the people you play against or the people you play with. I can honestly say I have that, and it's probably what I'm most proud of.

As good a hand-eye coordination I have playing the game of baseball, it is completely different out here, completely different style of swing. The golf ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it and it frustrates me I can't make it go where I want it to go.

I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

Of all the plays in baseball, stealing home is by far the most exciting.

Within the sports world, I think it'd be cool to go be part of a baseball game or basketball game - just something different to see what that feels like.

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.

I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.

I love baseball. I love my city, Philadelphia and Panama. I want to do my best and show everybody... I'll do my best.