- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
- Leisure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never surrender opportunity for security.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is a game of inches.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luck is the residue of design.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A full mind is an empty bat.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020