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It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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Topic

Never giving up

Speaker

Yogi Berra

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Berra, Yogi. Comment on National League pennant race. July 1973, New York, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Berra, Yogi. The Yogi Book. Workman Publishing Company, 2010, foreword.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

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Topic

Dwelling on the past Looking back The past

Author

Satchel Paige

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Page, Satchel. Quoted in "The Fabulous Satchel Page." Written by Richard Donovan. Collier's, 5 Jun. 1953.

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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Topic

Baseball

Speaker

Roy Campanella

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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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Topic

Baseball Sports

Author

Jim Bouton

Source

Ball Four

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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

Lou Gehrig

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Topic

Gratitude Baseball

Author

Lou Gehrig

Source

Farewell speech

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

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

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

Leo Durocher

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

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Topic

Competition Nice guys finish last

Speaker

Leo Durocher

Source

The New York Journal-American

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

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