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“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.” quote by Bill Veeck — Download Open image

“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.”

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Suffering is overated.

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I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

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Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant be done.

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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball…

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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

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I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like…

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If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

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To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and…

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

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Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

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It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.

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Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

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Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split…

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Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a…

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the…

Maybe bring in sponge balls to learn the technique and gain that experience of actually challenging for a header.

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I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same…

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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes…

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Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a…

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