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I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

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Goose Gossage
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 5
Baseball Player
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Richard Michael Gossage
Rich Michael Gossage
Rick Michael Gossage
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I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.
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I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.
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I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.
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In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
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Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.
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The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
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I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
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There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.
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Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
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When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.
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