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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#apple pie #baseball #crust #mom #pie

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. ↗

— Robert Redford

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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#baseball #basketball #culture #football #grow

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot. ↗

— Robin Roberts

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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#everyday #guy #his #i #just

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#close #count #counts #grenades #only

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#baseball #game #like #losing #nobody