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GEORGE STEINBRENNER

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BASEBALL QUOTES

Quotes by and about George Steinbrenner

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Quotes by Steinbrenner

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"Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa."

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"I will never have a heart attack. I give them."

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"I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball."

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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."

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"I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the club at all. I can't spread myself so thin. I've got enough headaches with my shipping company."

-- after becoming principal owner of the Yankees.

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Quotes about Steinbrenner

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"There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees."

— the late sports executive John McMullen, who owned a minority interest in the Steinbrenner Yankees before taking over the Houston Astros and later, the New Jersey Devils

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"What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for!?"

— Seinfeld character Frank Costanza, George's father, when he learns that his son might be dead. (Buhner was traded to the Seattle Mariners for Ken Phelps.)

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"He fires people like it's a bodily function."

— Seinfeld character George Costanza while working for the Yankees.

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The "Catch"
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"Wertz hits it. A solid sound. I learned a lot from the sound of the ball on the bat. Always did. I could tell from the sound whether to come in or go back.
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This time I'm going back, a long way back, but there is never any doubt in my mind. I am going to catch this ball. I turn and run for the bleachers. But I got it. Maybe you didn't know that, but I knew it. Soon as it got hit, I knew I'd catch this ball.
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"But that wasn't the problem. The problem was Lary Doby on second base. On a deep fly to center field at the Polo Grounds, a runner could score all the way from second. I've done that myself and more than once. So if I make the catch, which I will, and Larry scores from second, they still get the run that puts them ahead.
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"All the time I'm running back, I'm thinking, 'Willie, you've got to get this ball back to the infield.'
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"I run fifty or seventy-five yards--right to the warning track--and I take the ball a little toward my left shoulder. Suppose I stop and turn and throw. I will get nothing on the ball. No momentum going into my throw. What I have to do is this: after I make the catch, turn. Put all my momentum into that turn.
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"To keep my momentum, to get it working for me, I have to turn very hard and short and throw the ball from exactly the point that I caught it. The momentum goes into my turn and up through my legs and into my throw.
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"That's what I did. I got my momentum and my legs into that throw. Larry Doby ran to third, but he couldn't score. Al Rosen didn't even advance from first.
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"All the while I was running back, I was planning how to get off that throw.
"Then some of them wrote, I made that throw by instinct."
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-- Willie Mays describing "the catch"
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BASEBALL QUOTES
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Willie is ten feet nine inches tall. He can jump fifteen feet straight up. Nobody can hit a ball over his head. Willie's arms extend roughly from 157th Street to 159th Street. This gives him ample reach to cover right and left as well as center field. (The Polo Grounds were between 157th and 159th.) Willie can throw sidearm from the Polo Grounds to Pittsburgh.... Willie's speed is deceptive. The best evidence indicates he is a step faster than electricity. Willie does more for a team's morale than Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Rita Hayworth, plus cash.... That's about all there is to Mays, except that every authority added, "And if you think that's something, wait till you see him."
-- Roger Kahn, from a 1951 New York Herald Tribue article
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Yer fulla shit to ask that and I ain't gonna tell you why."
-- Casey Stengel responding to what he considered impertinent questions from sportswriters
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Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun."
--Ron Luciano, American League Umpire
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"Wait until Tommy meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes."
-- Gaylord Perry, Giants pitcher (on Tommy Lasorda's belief that God wears Dodger blue)
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There never is any set way to pitch to a great hitter. If there were, he'd be hitting .220."
-- Don Drysdale, Dodgers pitcher
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Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch."
-- Tim McCarver, Cardinals catcher
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"I was pitching on all adrenaline...and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate."
-- Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens, speaking after the first time he struck out 20 batters in a single game.
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"You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. Your self-confidence must be maintained."
-- Christy Mathewson, Giants pitcher
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If you aim to steal 30 or 40 bases a year, you do it by surprising the other side. But if your goal is 50 to 100 bases, the element of surprise doesn't matter. You go even though they know you're going to go. Then each steal becomes a contest, matching your skills against theirs."
-- Lou Brock, Cardinals outfielder
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"Maybe I'm not a great man, but I damn well want to break the record."
-- Roger Maris, Yankees outfielder
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Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed."
-- Bill Veeck, baseball executive
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Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities."
-- Luke Salisbury, author
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"Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them."
-- Curt Flood, Cardinals outfielder
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FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: goal.com

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SOCCER QUOTES
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"Football is love and passion-like that for a woman. Those who live this sport-whether as fans or players, club officials or referees, managers or groundskeepers-end up hopelessly in love."
~Gianluca Vialli in his book "The Italian Job: A Journey To The Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures" (co-authored with Italian journalist Gabriele Marcotti)
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“Football. Bloody hell!”
~Sir Alex Ferguson in the aftermath of Manchester United's dramatic 2-1 UEFA Champions League win over Bayern Munich in 1999
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"In Italy, 90 per cent of people are crazy about football. The other 10 per cent say they are not interested.....and then you see that they too like to sneak a look at the sports papers, just to check the results."
~Journalist and writer Paddy Agnew quotes Paolo Rossi in his book "Forza Italia:The Rise And Fall of Italian Football"
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"On the flight, Rafa sat next to Gerard(Houllier), who introduced him to my mum. She was flying out for England's game against Croatia on the Sunday. Rafa shook Mum's hand and said,"Does Steven like money?" First question!"
~Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard on his current club manager Rafael Benitez in his book "My Autobiography”
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"Un poco con la cabeza de Maradona y otro poco con la mano de Dios”(A little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God)."
~Argentine legend Diego Armando Maradona on his (in)famous “Hand of God” goal
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