I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

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

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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

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I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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