#baseball

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?' ↗

— Eric Davis

#cancer #colon #could #doctors #even

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well. ↗

— Eric Davis

#cancer #different #happen #i #just

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do. ↗

— Eric Davis

#basketball #could #high #high school #i

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. ↗

— Curt Flood

#baseball #establishment #permissive

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids." ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#baseball #best #crack #down #example

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#counts #driving #gets #home #like

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#anything #baseball #books #called #else

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. ↗

— Matt Long

#baseball #i #played #terrible

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#escape #game #i #park #place