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Baseball has been very good to me.

There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.