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I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before pretty much every game of my career

I would eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before the game. I started that in the minor leagues... and I stuck with that even in the big leagues... pretty much every game [for 1,937 games].

This is a verifiable fact of his personal routine confirmed by teammates in other media.

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Jim Harbaugh's first day of training camp is comparable to the feeling of being born

We know what he feels like in the first day of training camp. He says the first day of training camp is like being born. Ooh. And so that is, I think he's simulating his own birth.

This is an opinion on a feeling/metaphor; Harbaugh actually used this phrasing.
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Trey Hendrickson leaving the state of Ohio during his holdout is an all-time power move

Power moved by Trey Hendrickson. He said that he's not only not playing on his current contract, but he's leaving the state. He left, he left the state of Ohio... To just be like, I'm not only not going to be showing up, but I'm leaving the state.

Subjective assessment of a negotiation tactic.
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Jul 23, 2025
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Jerry Jones' public comments about Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons are the worst possible way to start training camp

The Cowboys are like, this is not the way you wanna start camp to have Micah Parsons seemingly upset in a shot at Dak Prescott from your owner and general manager... Anytime you can publicly take a dig at your star quarterback and your star pass rusher simultaneously right before the season begins... you just gotta take it.

Subjective opinion on team management and psychology.

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Getting hit by a pitch only hurts for about thirty seconds to a minute

My son looks at me, he goes, do you think that hurt? I was like, yeah, probably hurt. But it goes away after, you know, 30 seconds or a minute.

Pain threshold is subjective, though most medical experts would disagree that a high-velocity impact only 'hurts for a minute.'
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Cutting dairy from my diet cured my chronic knee pain in three weeks

I was having knee issues and I was... I needed to make some adjustments... I told myself, I'm gonna do it [go dairy free] for a month... probably about three weeks into it, honestly, I felt so much better. My body just felt fresher... I attributed it to the lack of dairy at the time.

Personal health experiences are subjective, but Utley is sincere about this being the cause of his recovery.
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I had no intention of hurting Ruben Tejada during the 2015 NLDS slide

There was zero intention to fuck anybody up on that play... Obviously the outcome was different than other slides that I've had. I didn't anticipate actually hitting him nearly as hard as I did... I had no intention of hurting him whatsoever.

Intent is inherently impossible to verify externally, but Utley maintains this stance years later.

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