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"People think baseball players make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000."
Pete Incaviglia

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
Paul Coffey

"It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square."
Pete Rose

"If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball."
Phil Jackson

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
Red Auerbach

"Fans don't boo nobodies."
Reggie Jackson

"The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it."
Reggie Jackson

"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
Robert Frost

"Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."
Robert Graves

"It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf."
Robert Lynd

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."
Rodney Dangerfield

"A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal."
Roger Kahn

"Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye."
Roger Kahn

"Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams."
Roger Kahn

"I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press."
Roger Kahn

"Horse racing is animated roulette."
Roger Kahn

"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."
Roger Kahn

"Tennis and golf are best played, not watched."
Roger Kahn

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."
Rogers Hornsby

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