I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.


Brooks Robinson

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PETE ROSE
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY SLYKE
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
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When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed tha...
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I want to be able to play with my kids, man. There's a lot more to life than baseball.
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GEORGE PRINCE
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People don't really want to believe this, but it's baseball. You get used to it. You play 162 games....
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PETE SEEGER
It was always his dream to have a son play big-league baseball.
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I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college.
ALVIN SIMMONS
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
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All I want to do is play baseball.
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
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I had an addiction to play baseball.
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I just want to play baseball.
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I wanted more than anything to go play pro baseball and have a long stint in the big leagues.
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The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
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Every ill man hath his ill day.
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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
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That's what you play for. You play all year in a lot of games. This is the spot you play for.
GRADY SIZEMORE
I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play.
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS
If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS
When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS