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BASEBALL QUOTES

• Gene Geiselmann, Cardinals Trainer, on a homerun hit by Juan Gonzales: "The ball went further than I ever went on vacation as a kid."

• Casey Stengel, on Satchel Paige: "He threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible
• Mickey Rivers: "I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no use getting upset. And I don't get upset over the things I can control, because if I can control them there's no use in getting upset."

• Lee Allen, on Pepper Martin: "A chunky, unshaven hobo who ran the bases like a beserk locomotive, slept in the raw, and swore at pitchers in his sleep."

• Pete Rose, to Tony Perez: "How can anyone as slow as you pull a muscle?"
• Jack Aker, Cleveland pitching coach, on the proliferation of homeruns: "It's the underground nuclear testing. Because of that, all gravity is leaving the earth. And so are the baseballs."
• Norman Cousins: At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"
• Reggie Jackson: "When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity."
• Waite Hoyte, to Robert Creamer: "All the lies about Ruth are true."
• Chet Brewer, on Josh Gibson: "He could hit any pitch to any field. The only way to pitch to him was to throw the ball low and behind him."
• Alan Bannister, on Rod Carew: "He's the only guy I know who can go four for three."
• Rudy May, on George Brett: "The only way to pitch him is inside, so you force him to pull the ball. That way the line drive won't hit you."
• Jim Frey, Royals manager, on his hitting advice to George Brett, I tell him: "Attaway to hit, George."
• Leo Durocher: "If you don't win, you're going to get fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired."

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