Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence

"I'd rather be in a prison cell with Mike Tyson, and let him beat my butt all day
long, than go through that again." - John Kruk, Philadelphia Phillies 1B, on the last
place '92 season
"I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player." - John Kruk
When told they would be raising the fences the following year, Jerry Koosman asked,
"Won't there be a lot of balls rolling under?" - Jerry Koosman
"He had about him a touch of royalty." - Bowie Kuhn (commissioner), on Roberto
Clemente
"The door would be opened wide to the buying of success by the more affluent
clubs, public suspicion would be aroused, traditional and sound methods of
player development and acquisition would be undermined and our efforts to
preserve competitive balance would be greatly impaired." - Bowie Kuhn, on voiding
the sale of Rudi, Fingers and Blue for $3.5 million by the World Champion Oakland A's,
June 1976
"I believe in the Rip Van Winkle Theory: that a man from 1910 must be able to
wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark and understand
baseball perfectly." - Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball (1969-1984)
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"When he went up for his last at-bat, I looked up at the scoreboard and saw his
stats: 69 home runs, 144 RBIs, and I'm thinking, 'Look at that; that's not a season,
that's a career.'" - Tom Lampkin (St. Louis Cardinals catcher), on best friend and
teammate Mark McGwire, 1B, after the 1998 season
"Casey Stengel just can't keep from being Casey Stengel." - Kenesaw Mountain
Landis, Commissioner of Baseball, on Stengel's thumbing his nose at Colonel Jacob
Ruppert during a World Series game after an inside the park home run by Stengel
"I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning." -
Dave LaPoint
"There are only two things that will prevent him from greatness: a knife and a
fork." - Frank Lane, on Boog Powell
"I remember he used to get very mad at himself if he failed to hit. I'll never forget
how hard he played all the time, especially the catch he made in my perfect
game." - Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, on Mickey
Mantle