A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
棒球
Baseball
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。
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
如何打本垒打:我尽我所能地挥杆，我试着把球打穿。
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
这是一件有趣的事。我把它比作棒球。我一直在寻找本垒打。
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
我打棒球是因为我可以通过打棒球赚更多的钱。
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
没有一个棒球投手，如果没有一个接球手，他能把球打得很快，那他就一文不值了。
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
那些写春训没有必要的人从来没有试过扔棒球。
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
我要把绳子拉断，让棒球不掉一滴眼泪。一个人不能一辈子都玩游戏。
I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.
我永远不想放弃打球。他们得把我的制服剪下来才能把我弄出来。
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
我很自豪能来到这里，作为一个在棒球比赛中比任何人都多打一垒的人。
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
每一个棒球观众，就像每一个戏剧观众一样，都有自己独特的态度和氛围。
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
在棒球比赛中你可以做三件事:你可以赢，你可以输，也可以下雨。
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
对我来说，棒球一直是生活的反映。就像生活一样，它也会做出调整。它生存的一切。
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I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
我在收音机上看了很多棒球比赛。
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
我的棒球生涯是从一个秘密开始的，这个秘密就是:爱是一切的核心。
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
没有战争故事。我最终成为一名投弹手，但我从未出过国。也不是因为我在打棒球。只是发生了一系列的事情。
Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
无论出于什么原因，棒球变得越来越好。
Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
为你的员工维护“棒球卡”和/或“可信矩阵”。想象一下，如果你有棒球卡，上面显示了所有的性能数据。你可以看到他们做得好与不好，并呼吁正确的人以一种非常透明的方式扮演正确的角色。
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
我参加了少年棒球联盟。我走遍全国，与那些有问题的年轻人交谈，试图帮助他们理解，无论他们选择哪条道路，他们都需要真正关注它。