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棒球
Baseball
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
在这个非常混乱的世界里，棒球几乎是唯一有序的运动。如果你三次罢工，即使是世界上最好的律师也不能把你免职。
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
我父亲喜欢棒球，他培养了我的天赋。我想他从来没有怀疑过有一天我会打职业棒球。
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
棒球很像生活。这是一种日常生活，充满了起起落落。就像在生活中一样，你充分利用你在棒球中的机会。
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
我一直都是这样的。我小时候是个假小子，所以我总是和男孩子们一起打棒球、篮球、足球等等。
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?
我做了一些别人不会做的事情。我在比赛前热身。棒球和篮球运动员要热身，那么播音员为什么不热身呢?
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
我认为对于任何一个打过棒球的人来说，最困难的事情之一就是接受这样一个事实:也许今天的球员打得和以前一样好。
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
我一直很幸运。我认识了很多棒球界的人，我学会了珍惜说话的人——那些善于用长句子甚至长段落说话的人。
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
棒球是热血男人的一项充满活力的运动。这不是粉红色的茶，小宝贝们最好待在外面。这是一场争夺霸权的斗争，一场适者生存的斗争。
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
我也是和我一起打棒球的人中的一员，他们对我很好，亚特兰大的厄尔曼先生，他给了我第一份棒球广播的工作。
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
棒球没有忘记我。我玩了很多老游戏，没有丢过一件东西。我坐在牛棚里，让别人朝我扔东西。就像过去一样。
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
当我早上醒来时，我想到棒球。我整天都在想这件事，晚上做梦。我唯一不去想它的时候就是我在玩它的时候。
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
棒球运动的美妙之处在于，每隔一段时间，你就会陷入一种你想要，也必须去证明的境地。
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
在棒球运动中，我是一名投手，我讨厌这一点，因为那里没有动作。
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
棒球生涯结束后，我还有很长一段时间要活，我想用我的身体来度过这段时间。
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.
运动是生活的一个极好的比喻。在我参加过的所有运动中——滑雪、棒球、钓鱼——没有比高尔夫更伟大的例子了，因为你在与自己和大自然对抗。
I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
我想这就是我喜欢棒球的原因。这很了不起——你很年轻，投手很年轻，他有很好的手臂，但他对策略一无所知。
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
当我开始打棒球的时候，棒球就像踢在胯部一样有绅士风度。
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
我不喜欢棒球。这是我的工作。