| Quote | Player |
| 'Trying to throw a fastball by _____ is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.' -Curt Simmons | |
| 'Trying to hit _____ was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.' - Willie Stargell | |
| '_____ is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn't score any runs.' - Tim McCarver | |
| 'I copied __'s style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.' - Babe Ruth | |
| '_____ gave the term 'complete' a new meaning. He made the word 'superstar' seem inadequate. He had about him the touch of royalty.' - Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn | |
| 'You know what's coming [from _____], but you know what's coming in horror movies, too. It still gets you.' - Mike Sweeney | |
| 'Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when __ is throwing | |
| 'I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to _____. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.' - Gil Hodges | |
| '_____ could have hit .300 with a fountain pen.' - Joe Garagiola | |
| '_____ is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.' - Babe Ruth | |
| 'If I had played my career hitting singles like _____, I'd wear a dress.' - Mickey Mantle | |
| 'When you mail _____ something from the States, you only have to use his first name on the address and he gets it. He's that big.' - Tony Attanasio | |
| '_____ is the loneliest man I have ever seen in sports.' - Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon | |
| | Quote | Player |
| 'Hanging out with ______ sucks because all the women flock to him. Let's see, he's been on the cover of GQ, is rich and famous, hits for average and power and is a helluva nice guy | |
| They said __ had no weakness, won't swing at a bad ball, has the best eyes in the business... He won't hit anything bad, but don't give him anything good' - Bobby Shantz | |
| 'If _____ were healthy, he'd hit eighty home runs.' - Carl Yastrzemski | |
| 'It's been said before, but it's true: for Red Sox fans, watching _____ thrive as a Yankee is the equivalent of watching your ex-wife marry your sworn mortal enemy — then live ha | |
| '_____ casts a pretty big shadow - it gives me lots of room to spread myself.' - Lou Gehrig | |
| 'Sometimes when _____ gets hit by a pitch I'm almost embarrassed to ask him about it. By the time he gets back to the dugout the bruise is gone.' - Trainer Richie Bancells | |
| '_____'s not at his locker yet, but four guys are over there interviewing his glove.' - Rex Barney | |
| 'I wish everybody had the drive __ had. Never did anything wrong on the field. never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, he never walked off the field | |
| 'Blind people come to the park just to listen to _____ pitch.' - Reggie Jackson | |
| '_____ could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.' - Joe Morgan | |
| 'One day, _____ will put up numbers no one can believe.' - Pirate Teammate R.J. Reynolds | |
| 'If ______ and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.' - Dizzy Dean | |
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