Every strike brings me closer to the next homerun: Babe Ruth.

Okay you guys, pair up in threes. Yogi Berra.

It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits. It took one afternoon on the golf course: Hank Aarron.

It's getting late early: Yogi Berra

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out it was the other way around all the time: Jim Bouton.

Baseball is like Church. Many attend, few understand: Leo Durocher.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference: Tommy Lasorda.

Athletes are born winners, they're not born losers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become successful in life: Charles Sledge.

Some say pour national pastime is Baseball. Not me. It's gossip: Erna bombeck.

They say so many of my stars drink whiskey, But         I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many games: Fred McManus.

Oh to be a Centerfielder, a Centerfielder, a Centerfielder, and nothing more: Philip Roth

I do what I've trained my whole life to do I keep my eye on the ball, I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the Catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three: Barry Lyga.

If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself: Mickey Mantle.

I've never questioned the integrity of an Umpire……just his eyesight: Leo Durocher.

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