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"He's like an amusement-park ride - Even for guys who play." - Ruben Amaro, on Mark McGwire "Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs "<strong>Baseball</strong> is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber, announcer "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry "I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they forgot to bring the scorebook to the game that day." - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Homestead Grays OF "They say I was born too soon. I say the doors were opened too late." - James "Cool Papa" Bell "Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!" - Johnny Bench "I was thinking of making a comeback until I pulled a muscle - vacuuming." - Johnny Bench, on how he felt about Charlton Fisk breaking his record for career home runs by a catcher. "An ardent supporter of the home town team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens." - Robert Benchley "In batting practice, I don't think I hit one ball hard. It was frustrating, that bat was no good." - Dante Bichette, Colorado Rockies OF, after Bichette hit for the cycle after flinging into the stands the bat he was using for batting practice "I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone." - Wade Boggs, on being ejected for the first time in the 17th year of his career for arguing a called third strike "That's the nicest thing a returning player could ever ask for. It shows how classy the New York Fans are. It gave me a warm feeling inside." - Wade Boggs, on the standing ovation he received on his first return to Yankee Stadium (6-3-98) "This is nothing. I've got nine writers standing here. McGwire had 200 writers when he had 30 home runs." - Barry Bonds (SF Giants OF), on being the first player to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases.
"A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else." - Jim Bouton, NY Yankees pitcher "The older they get, the better they were when they were younger." - Jim Bouton, on Old Timers Days. Note: Jim Bouton was invited to return to Yankee Stadium on July 26, 1998 for his first Old Timers Game after 30 years. There were bad feelings for many years after Jim wrote a book revealing that ballplayers weren't the angels that everybody had expected. "<strong>Baseball</strong> players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" - Jim Bouton A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton, NY Yankees "If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect three thousand hits and one thousand errors." - George Brett, Kansas City Royals 3B "Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings." - Dave Bristol (Reds' manager), on Sandy Koufax and his elbow pains that forced him into early retirement. "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." - St. Louis' Lou Brock "No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby." - Lou Brock "In high school I took a little English, some science, some hubcaps and some wheel covers." - William James Gates Brown (Detroit Tigers OF) When asked if his curve was helped by the absence of an index finger, Mordecai Brown replied, "To know for sure, I'd have to throw with a normal hand, and I've never tried it." - Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown "I can't conceive of either team winning a single game." - Warren Brown (Chicago writer), when asked for a prediction as to the outcome of the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and the Tigers and an obvious reference to the wartime look of both teams. "I can sit in a ballpark after a game and love looking at the field. Everybody's gone, and the ballpark is empty, and I'll sit there. I sit there and think, 'Is this as close to heaven as I'm going to get?' Or, 'If I get to heaven, will there be baseball?" - Kim Braatz-Voisard, Silver Bullets' center fielder, 1997
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