Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence

anything.' So he went to a private doctor and the doctor said, 'You have a broken
foot.'" - Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates OF
"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give." - Roberto
Clemente
"I have never slept under the same roof with a nigger, and I'm not going to start
here in my own native state of Georgia." - Ty Cobb, on sleeping in the same hunting
lodge as Babe Ruth, who Cobb believed to be part black.
"I think being able to play the infield, especially shortstop, is something you are
born with. You can't learn it." - David Concepcion
"How do you say, "Adios" in Spanish?" - Clay Carrol, former Reds reliever
"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." - Chris
Chambliss
"At night time, you just try to keep him out of jail." - David Cone (New York
Yankees pitcher), on teammate David "Boomer" Wells.
"The guys put their careers on the line. One pitch could have blown out their
arms. You hear the rap people put on the modern-day player -- I, I, I and me, me,
me -- well, this series (1995 Division playoffs between New York and Seattle) was
anything but that. If this doesn't do a lot to diminish the greedy ballplayer image, I
don't know what will." - David Cone, Yankees pitcher
"There are Opening Day pitchers and pitchers who start on Opening Day." - Roger
Lee Craig, San Francisco Giants manager
"The debut of Jackie Robinson was quite uneventful, even though he had the
unenviable distinction of snuffing out a rally by hitting into a remarkable double
play. The muscular Negro minds his own business and shrewdly makes no effort
to push himself. He speaks quietly and intelligently when spoken to and already
has made a strong impression." - Arthur Daley, NY Times coverage of Robinson's
debut, 15 Apr 47
"Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's
more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to
get their urine tested?" - Ron Darling (New York Mets pitcher), on the eve of the 1990
lockout.
"He's part of Americana, part of the folklore of this country: a guy who grew up in
Oklahoma and became arguably the greatest power-hitting switch-hitter ever." -
Ron Darling, Oakland A's pitcher, on Mickey Mantle