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BASEBALL WORDS OF WISDOM:

There's no "I" in TEAM!

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

It gets late early out there.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

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A good friend of mine used to say, This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. Think about that for a while.

Hey…Dad. You wanna have a catch?

Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls -- it's more democratic.

There's no crying in baseball!

You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry! Lollygaggers!

Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live ... is it a live rooster? We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be - in baseball and in life.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball."

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings.

There are only two seasons—winter and baseball.

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.
"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."