Major League Quotes

• The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Winning, Games

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• When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, League, Bullshit

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Stars, America

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• Feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Games, League

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• Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

  Jay Leno

  Baseball, Running, Hurt

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• Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Baseball, Home

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• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Real, Player

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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• Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

  Pete Rose

  Vacation, October, Bigs

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• My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

  Melky Cabrera

  Mom, League, Care

  "Torrid-hitting Giant making name for self" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 2012.

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Florida

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

  Mike Quade

  League, Coaching, Important

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• Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

  George Will

  Cute, Baseball, Team

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Team, Reality, Japan

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• I don't see anyone playing in the major leagues today (1982) who combines both the talent and the intensity that I had. I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

  Frank Robinson

  League, Today, Talent

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• Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Stars, Nice, League

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• Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

  Ron Darling

  Baseball, League, World

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.

  Hank Greenwald

  Ambition, Thinking About You, League

  Source: baseballpastandpresent.com

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• There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Stars, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

  David Simon

  Book, Mean, League

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• Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Games, League

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• To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

  Tony La Russa

  Umpires, League, Giving

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• Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

  Stan Musial

  Baseball, Player, League

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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