Quote of the day

On TV the people can see it. On radio, you’ve got to create it.

~Bob Uecker

Bob Uecker of the Milwaukee Brewers talks with manager Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks before the Major League Baseball game at Chase Field on July 18, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Quote of the day

You shouldn’t have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it’s baseball or it’s horses. You can’t beat the horses. You can’t beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

~ George Steinbrenner

George Steinbrenner, c. 1980 (Library of Congress / public domain)

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The reason I think I’m a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That’s what you do to pitch. That’s what pitchers have to do to win games.

~Greg Maddux

Greg Maddux pitching, 1994 (Joel Dinda / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

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In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

~Duke Snider

Duke Snider, 1953 (Bowman Gum / public domain)

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I’m not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I’m not muscular and not physically imposing, that I’m just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy.

~Ichiro Suzuki

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