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Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.
Tony Dungy
Time
Me
Kid
Kids
Favorite
Football
Picking
Most
Sport
Least
Off
Up
Did
Ended
Which
Really
Dad
Baseball
Enjoyed
Started
Last
Basketball
Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.
Tony Gwynn
You
Perception
Think
Kids
Kind
Boring
Like
Lot
Baseball
I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.
Tony La Russa
Game
Opportunity
Think
Out
See
All-Star
All-Star Game
Guys
Lot
Get
Them
Baseball
Deserve
Credit
There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
Tony La Russa
You
Survival
Money
Competition
First
Before
More
Had
Mostly
Because
Got
Lot
Contracts
Than
Difference
Bigger
Professional
Professional Baseball
Baseball
Now
Guaranteed
Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.
Torii Hunter
Me
You
Nothing
Down
Broke
See
Crying
Pine
Up
Get
Whenever
Upset
Where
Bluff
Fun
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Right
Level
Bring
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Twyla Tharp
You
Dance
Tennis
Like
Sport
Content
Boxing
Materials
Up
Itself
Thematic
Stand
Stand Up
Baseball
Play
My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.
Ty Burrell
Game
Bat
Kids
Favourite
Ball
Fake
Version
Really
Plastic
Baseball
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
Ty Simpkins
Winter
Group
Boogie
Summer
Fencing
Improv
Snowboarding
Cello
Hockey
Ice
Boarding
Baseball
Play
Belong
Phases
I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.
Ty Simpkins
Love
Sports
Favorite
Just
Baseball
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.
Tyson Gay
Best
You
School
Passion
Nothing
Think
High
High School
Individual
Had
Football
Individual Sport
Like
Sport
Track
Replace
Where
Want
Younger
Baseball
Things
Played
I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.
Vernon Law
Life
Day
Game
My Life
Else
Back
Trade
Anybody
Anybody Else
Golden
Fun
Baseball
Played
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue
Charlie
Stomach
Baseball
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully
People
Inside
Some
Almost
Almost All
Track
Effect
Up
Us
Unifying
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Level
Played
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W. P. Kinsella
Game
Heroes
Seen
Before
Had
Knew
Read
Box
How
Were
Heard
Scores
Much
Who
Even
Baseball
Ever
I haven't been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.
Wade Boggs
Once
Superstitious
Been
Left
Really
Baseball
Actually
You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
Waite Hoyt
You
Out
About
Never
Put
Know
Until
Still
Years
Five
Get
Really
Pair
Baseball
Play
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walter Alston
Toughest
Perhaps
Repeat
Truest
Baseball
Thing
Axiom
My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
Warren Giles
Welfare
First
Cincinnati
Itself
Interest
Warren
Baseball
Second
Third
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
You
Took
Kind
Around
Yankees
Always
October
Going
Granted
Baseball
Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Whitey Herzog
Good
Me
Has-Been
Since
Been
Trying
Quit
Baseball
Play
Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.
Willie Cauley-Stein
Day
Every Day
Every
Kids
Hoop
Never
Football
Like
Most
Sport
Track
Years
Did
Worked
Really
Baseball
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.
Willie Geist
Wonderful
Wearing
Dressed
Only
Absurdity
Come
Ready
Tradition
Dugout
Managers
Golf
Uniforms
Baseball
Play
Second
Spectators
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
Best
Think
Saw
Baseball
Baseball Player
Ever
Player
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Willie Mays
Game
Business
Almost
Combat
Most
Also
Truly
Yes
Disguised
Pace
Leisurely
Baseball
Violence
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays
Me
Key
Defense
Baseball
Playing
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays
Me
Knowledge
Before
Would
Easy
Guy
Had
Know
Became
How
Brag
Hit
Trying
Anything
Professional
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
Each
Baseball
Baseball Player
Things
Player
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