If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time. -Don Zimmer

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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth

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There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’. -Bryce Harper

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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something -Nolan Ryan

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Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation. -Mike Piazza

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Albert Pujols

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. -Rickey Henderson

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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. -Bullet Bob Feller

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