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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field" »Jim Boulton
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"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." »Alistair Cooke
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten
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"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." »Frank Deford
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"In baseball, you don't know nothing." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man." »Ralph J. Smith
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"Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover
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"baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical." »Yogi Berra
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"The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five." »Jerry Coleman
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"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously." »Sidney Madwed
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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game." »Glenn Dickey
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"baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." »Hank Aaron
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." »Phyllis Diller
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"baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball." »Ralph Kiner
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"(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson
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"baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." »Ted Williams
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." »Bette Davis
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"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball." »Gerald Early
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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." »Evan Esar
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