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BASEBALL QUOTABLES

Yogi Berra: "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."

Yogi Berra, on why the New York Yankees lost the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We made too many wrong mistakes."

George Brett: "If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out."

Bowie Kuhn: "I believe in the Rip Van Winkle Theory: that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark and understand baseball perfectly."

Bob Uecker, lifetime .200 hitter: "Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater achievement."

Tim McCarver: "I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit."

Casey Stengel, to one of his pitchers at the Polo Grounds: "At the end of this season they're gonna tear this place down. The way you're pitchin', that right-field section will be gone already."

Casey Stengel, to Marvelous Marv Throneberry on his birthday: "We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it."

Bill Veeck: "That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball."

Yogi Berra: Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Dale Berra, Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop and son of noted linguist Yogi Berra: "The only thing my father & I have in common is that our similarities are different."

Joe Adcock: "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

Joe E. Lewis: "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel."

Susan Sarandon, as Annie Savoy in Bull Durham: "I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball."

Jim Bouton: "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field."

Buzzie Bavasi, on Don Zimmer, a play-me-or-trade-me player: "We played him and now we can't trade him."

Ted Williams: "The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely."

Bobby Murcer: "Trying to hit him (Phil Niekro) was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks."

Yogi Berra: "There's one word that describes baseball -- 'You never know."

Rocky Bridges, on Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: "He was definitely the player to be named later."

Pedro Guerrer "Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean."

Unknown: "Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are "Play Ball!"

Casey Stengel: "I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly decided they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression."

Jim Bouton: "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 everybody else."

Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds."

Don Sutton, who was often accused of defacing the ball, was visited on the mound, by home plate umpire Doug Harvey, who thought he found something incriminating hiding inside Sutton's glove. Instead he found a note in the glove that read: "You're getting warm, but it's not here."

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: "Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law."

Yogi Berra: "Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa."

Yogi Berra: "You can observe a lot by just watching."

Phil Rizzuto "I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes."

Jim Murray, on Charles Finley: "Finley is a self-made man who worships his creator."

Steve McCatty, on Charles Finley's heart operation: "It took 8 hours, 7 1/2 hours just to find his heart."

Joe Garagiola: "I went through life as a "player to be named later!"

Al Rosen: "The greatest thrill in the world is to end the game with a home run and watch everybody else walk off the field while you're running the bases on air."