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I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

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Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

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See the ball; hit the ball.

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Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

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When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

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Never bet on baseball.

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I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

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The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

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Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

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Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

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I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

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You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

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There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

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We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

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When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

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In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

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Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

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I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

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Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.

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I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

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My body is my best asset.

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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

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Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

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The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

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I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

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No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

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I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

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