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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.