Quotes by Stan Musial - Page 1

I'm proud to be a Cardinal.
Stan Musial / Baseball Player
Proud
Cardinal
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Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.
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I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.
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Baseball
Games
Play
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Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
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Forget
Hitting
Never Forget
Swimming
Once
Never Forget Forget Never
Learn
Stroke
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Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.
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Running
Eight
Sleep
Weight
Mile
Regularly
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I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.
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Hesitation
Louis
Great Place
Place
St. Louis
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What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.
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Cardinals
Made
Used
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There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.
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Bats
Stance
Way
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I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
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Balls
Bats
Tape
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When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.
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Dry
Pitcher
Throwing
Complain
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The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
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Average
Baseball
Keys
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What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
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Figures
Hurt
Trying
Anybody Else
Myself Never Try
Figure
Likely
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Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.
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Baseball
League
Major League
Player
Plus
Hit
Followed
Major
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There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.
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Best Good Day
Joe
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I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
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Tape
Bat
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I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.
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Bigs
League
Way
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I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
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Fun
Good Way
Musician
People
Play
Relax
Good Fun People
Entertain
Entertain People
Harmonica
Have Fun
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The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
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Firsts
Past
Principles
Contract
In The Past
Negotiations
Principle
Remind
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Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
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Baseball
Cardinals
Enjoyed
Games
Thinking
Anybody
Anybody Else
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Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
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Running
Home
Bats
Size
Speed
Swings
Thick
Barrel
Bat
Gets
Home Runs
Runs
Swing
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The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.
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Hitting
Swings
Thinking
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I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.
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Balls
Causes
Littles
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It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
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Men
Brooklyn
Fans
Hitting
Time Great Always
Time Great Man
Close
Every Time
Plate
Seemed
Stands
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A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.
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Balls
Bats
Important
Zone
Bat
Hitters
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Plate
Strike
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I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.
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Feet
Flight
League
Pitcher
Speed
Ball
Crossed
Curve
Fastball
Pick
Plate
Slider
Threw
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I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.
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Curves
Feet
Moving
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I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.
Stan Musial / Baseball Player
Bats
Getting Older
Handle
September
Smallest
Summer
Thinking
Years
Getting
Older
Scrape
Start
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I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.
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Baseball
Qualified
Men Great Always
Stayed
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When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.
Stan Musial / Baseball Player
Baseball
Bats
Dodgers
Stealing
Turns
Louis
Bat
Disappearing
Dugout
Rack
St. Louis
Walker
Wee
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