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It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

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

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.