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«A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.»
«Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.»
Author: Bob Greene | About: Baseball, Sports | Keywords: pastime, pastimes, sport, The National
«Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.»
«A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.»
«A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.»
«Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.»
Author: Tommy Lasorda (Baseball Player, Coach) | About: Baseball, Sports | Keywords: driving, safely
«A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.»
Author: Wayne Gretzky | About: Play, Sports | Keywords: hockey, hockey player, player, plays, puck
«Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.»
«A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.»
«A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin (Educator) | About: Sports | Keywords: sporting

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