bxny
02-21-00, 04:40 PM
"He'd give you the shirt off his back. Of course, he'd call a press conference to announce it."
-- Catfish Hunter on Reggie Jackson
"I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me."
-- Reggie Jackson
"I know, but I had a better year than Hoover."
-- Ruth's reply when a reporter complained he was making more money than President Herbert Hoover
"Just one. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."
-- Ruth on if he had any superstitions
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."
-- Lou Gehrig
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
-- Yogi Berra
"Baseball is 90-percent mental. The other half is physical."
-- Yogi Berra
"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
-- Yogi Berra as Yankee manager
"It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page."
-- Joe DiMaggio's response when asked whether marriage to Marilyn Monroe was good for him
"There's always some youngster coming up -- they'll find somebody . . ."
-- Joe DiMaggio (April 4, 1951), when asked who would replace him in 1952. "Somebody" was Mickey Mantle.
"Every time we make trouble, ol' George flies out here from another part of the country and gets in our way. Maybe we should make a lot of trouble, so he'll keep flying out here. Sooner or later, his plane's gonna crash."
-- Dock Ellis on George Steinbrenner in spring training, 1978
"I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit."
-- Whitey Ford on Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax during the 1963 World Series
"So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start."
-- Reggie Jackson on being in a hitting slump
"Why pitch nine innings when you can get just as famous pitching two?"
-- reliever Sparky Lyle
"As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt I could possibly go through it again."
-- Roger Maris on breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home-run record
"When I get through managing, I'm going to open a kindergarten."
-- manager Billy Martin
"When you're a professional, you come back, no matter what happened the day before."
-- Billy Martin
"Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did. I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana."
-- Don Mattingly
"Nothing. How about some practice?"
-- First-base coach Stump Merrill-His wife, Carole, had asked him what a first-base coach did other than "pat guys on the rear end."
"The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day."
-- Yankees general manager Gabe Paul
"Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win."
-- Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto after reading a bulletin that Pope Paul VI had died
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."
-- manager Casey Stengel
"The Yankees don't pay me to win every day -- just two out of three."
-- Casey Stengel
"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season, but we're trying to win the pennant."
-- Stengel to a Yankee rookie
"There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing."
-- Yankees general manager Gabe Paul
"I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball."
-- George Steinbrenner
[This message has been edited by bxny (edited February 22, 2000).]
-- Catfish Hunter on Reggie Jackson
"I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me."
-- Reggie Jackson
"I know, but I had a better year than Hoover."
-- Ruth's reply when a reporter complained he was making more money than President Herbert Hoover
"Just one. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."
-- Ruth on if he had any superstitions
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."
-- Lou Gehrig
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
-- Yogi Berra
"Baseball is 90-percent mental. The other half is physical."
-- Yogi Berra
"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
-- Yogi Berra as Yankee manager
"It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page."
-- Joe DiMaggio's response when asked whether marriage to Marilyn Monroe was good for him
"There's always some youngster coming up -- they'll find somebody . . ."
-- Joe DiMaggio (April 4, 1951), when asked who would replace him in 1952. "Somebody" was Mickey Mantle.
"Every time we make trouble, ol' George flies out here from another part of the country and gets in our way. Maybe we should make a lot of trouble, so he'll keep flying out here. Sooner or later, his plane's gonna crash."
-- Dock Ellis on George Steinbrenner in spring training, 1978
"I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit."
-- Whitey Ford on Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax during the 1963 World Series
"So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start."
-- Reggie Jackson on being in a hitting slump
"Why pitch nine innings when you can get just as famous pitching two?"
-- reliever Sparky Lyle
"As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt I could possibly go through it again."
-- Roger Maris on breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home-run record
"When I get through managing, I'm going to open a kindergarten."
-- manager Billy Martin
"When you're a professional, you come back, no matter what happened the day before."
-- Billy Martin
"Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did. I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana."
-- Don Mattingly
"Nothing. How about some practice?"
-- First-base coach Stump Merrill-His wife, Carole, had asked him what a first-base coach did other than "pat guys on the rear end."
"The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day."
-- Yankees general manager Gabe Paul
"Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win."
-- Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto after reading a bulletin that Pope Paul VI had died
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."
-- manager Casey Stengel
"The Yankees don't pay me to win every day -- just two out of three."
-- Casey Stengel
"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season, but we're trying to win the pennant."
-- Stengel to a Yankee rookie
"There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing."
-- Yankees general manager Gabe Paul
"I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball."
-- George Steinbrenner
[This message has been edited by bxny (edited February 22, 2000).]