Rather than load up with a bunch of Yogi Berra quotes which are of course wonderful, I have collected some interesting quotations that I thought deserved mention.
No, it will not have Dick Mora's "Playoffs" rant or Allen Iverson's "Practise, we're talking about practise" stand up routine, strictly baseball.
"Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe. he may solve the very secret of eternity itself. But for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit and run" - Branch Rickey
"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves" - Ty Cobb
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball" - Pete Rose
"I ain't never had a job. I always played baseball" - Leroy "Satchel" Paige
"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove - Vance Law
"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen" - Bob Lemon
"oh hell, if you win 20 games, they want you to do it every year" - Billy Loes
"Baseball is like church, many attend, but few understand " - Wes Westrum
" Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game turns around and punches you in the nose" - Mike Schmidt
"Fans don't boo nobodies" - Reggie Jackson
"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" - Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton - circa 1962
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