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For Americans, of course, it's football, basketball, and baseball. We live for it. In many ways, it sums up who we are. In Iran, it's all about wrestling. The patriotism toward their country comes out in the way they wrestle, so it makes sense why they're the best.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Golf was a great way to be better in baseball. And now golf is something I enjoy, and a way to better experience and succeed in life.

If the players don't produce, and aren't in the position to be evaluated correctly, then a manager's job of winning or losing baseball games gets falsely reported.

In baseball I was able to emulate a lot of different things because I did it growing up, but I go about golf in my own unique way.

I took notes a lot as a baseball player, and I take notes a lot as a golfer.

A manager's job in baseball, more than any other sport, is managing people.

Everybody wants a piece of paper to work out the issues and how baseball should be played. Everything's a number. Everybody's got the answer.

There's things that I've been through in golf that baseball couldn't even prepare me for.

At the age of 7 I said, 'I know what I'm gonna be in life and I'm gonna be a Major League Baseball player.'

I never had any lessons in baseball; I just watched on TV and tried to copy what I saw.

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?

Everything at a baseball game is pretty much health food if you subscribe to the theory that you're eating what makes you happy.

Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.

Bob Clear, nobody's ever heard about except for some people who have been in the game, was probably my main mentor in the game of baseball.

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.