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Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a baseball player.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that 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.

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.