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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Roy Campanella

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Campanella, Roy. Quoted in New York Journal-American. 12 Apr. 1957.

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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

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Hagen, Walter C. The Walter Hagen Story. Simon and Schuster, 1956.

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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

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Bouton, Jim. Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues. World Publishing Company, 1970, pt. 7.

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I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Lou Gehrig

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Gehrig, Lou. Farewell speech. Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York City, NY, USA.

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The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

Leo Durocher

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Remark about the New York Giants baseball team, then in second-to-last place in the League.

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Durocher, Leo. Quoted in New York Journal-American. 7 July 1946. Originally a remark about the New York Giants baseball team, 6 July 1946.

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