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“I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.” quote by Goose Gossage — Download Open image

“I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.”

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Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had…

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Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

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If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

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In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

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The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of…

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I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

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I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

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The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She was my number one fan and she always said I'd love to see you go into the Hall of Fame. That was the only urgency that I ever had that I wish if I was going to go…

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These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of…

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Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face…

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Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned…

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I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind…

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