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 ==Quotations== 
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 ===Quotes=== 

 *""This . . . is a simple game.  You throw the ball.  You hit the ball.  You catch the ball."" –Joe Riggins 

 *""Bad trades are part of baseball; I mean who can forget Milt Pappas for Frank Robinson for gosh sakes."" –Annie 

 *Crash (upon finding out why he was traded to the Bulls): 
 :""So my AAA contract gets bought out so I can hold some flavor of the month's dick in the bush leagues!  Is that it?!? Well, fuck this fucking game! I fuckin' quit, mmm?  I quit."" 
 :(leaves the clubhouse office, slams the door. Pauses, shakes his head in disgust, and re-opens the office door) 
 :""Who we playing tomorrow?"" 

 *""Why's he always calling me Meat? I'm the one drivin' a Porsche."" –Nuke LaLoosh 

 *Nuke brags about his signing bonus and the high-end stereo in the new car he bought with the money.  
 :Crash: ""Jesus Christ, you don't need a quadrophonic Blaupunkt! What you need is a curveball! Huh?  In The Show, everybody can hit a fastball!""  
 :Nuke: ""Well how would you know?  You been in the Majors?"" 
 :Crash: ""Yeah, I've been in the Majors . . . I was in the majors for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags? It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.!"" 

 *Nuke:""How come you don't like me?"" 
 :Crash:""Because, you don't respect yourself, and that's your problem. But you don't respect the game, and that's my problem."" 

 *""Don't think: you can only hurt the ball club.""  –Crash Davis 

 *""Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. You win twenty in the show, you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press'll think you ""colorful"". Until you win twenty in the show, however, means you're slob."" –Crash Davis 

 *""Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, open your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.  Goodnight."" –Crash Davis 

 *Batboy hands pine tar rag to Crash Davis, who is thinking about Annie and having trouble concentrating... 
 :Batboy: ""Get a hit, Crash!"" 
 :Crash: ""Shut up!"" 

 *""Relax, alright? Don't try to strike everybody out! Strikeouts are boring, and besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls, it's more democratic."" –Crash Davis 

 *(During a player's conference on the mound): ""...candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two!"" –Larry 

 *Crash argues a close play at the plate, and is ejected from the game. 
 :Radio announcer: ""Crash Davis has been ejected, and frankly, folks, he used a certain word that is a no-no to umpires!"" 
 :Millie (listening to radio with Annie): ""Crash must've called the guy a cocksucker."" 
 :Annie (sighing): ""Mmmmm, he's so romantic!"" 

 *Crash Davis, frustrated with Annie: 
 :Crash: ""Who are you, anyway? Do you have a job?"" 
 :Annie: ""I teach English part-time at Alamance Junior College!"" 
 ::(The owner of the real-life Bulls also owned the Burlington team, of Alamance County). 

 *""This is a simple game. You throw the ball; you hit the ball; you catch the ball""  Nuke LaLoosh, to reporter in ""The Show"". 

 *""Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes... it rains. [pause] Think about that."" –Nuke LaLoosh 

 *""Walt Whitman once said, ""I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us."" You could look it up."" –Annie, last line of the film.  Oddly, [[Walt Whitman|Whitma