George Herman Quotes

#1. I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

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#2. I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

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#3. To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

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#4. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

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#5. The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

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#6. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

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#7. I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

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#8. I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

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#9. I hit big or I miss big.

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#10. As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

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#11. The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

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#12. How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

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#13. I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

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#14. The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

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#15. You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

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#16. You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

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#17. I like to live as big as I can.

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#18. Striking out batters was easy.

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