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"Jackie was the greatest competitor I ever saw. He didn't win. He triumphed." - Ralph Branca, Dodger pitcher, 1947 Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: "Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law." - Don Baylor Dale Berra, Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop and son of noted linguist Yogi Berra, "The only thing my father & I have in common is that our similarities are different." "You mix two jiggers of scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license." - Rocky Bridges, minor league manager, on his new diet drink "The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is." - Rocky Bridges, from The Sporting News, December 12, 1970 "It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it." - Rocky Bridges "Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment." - Rocky Bridges "You know when you've got it made? When you get your name in the crossword puzzles." - Rocky Bridges "I prefer fast food." - Rocky Bridges, on why he won't eat snails "No little boy in the hospital asked me to hit one, I didn't promise it to my kid for his birthday, and my wife will be too shocked to appreciate it. I hit it for me." - Rocky Bridges, after hitting his first home run in two seasons "The more I played with them, the more I found that no one could take a joke - my batting average." - Rocky Bridges, on his two seasons with the Dodgers and his .237 batting average "Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment." - Rocky Bridges "The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn." - Rocky Bridges
On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: "He was definitely the player to be named later." - Rocky Bridges "Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes." - Bobby Bonilla "Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports." - Gen. Omar Bradley "They can hollar at the uniform all they want, but when they hollar at the man wearing the uniform, they're in trouble." - Umpire Joe Brinkman "Nobody's gone after Reds with this much vigor since Joe McCarthy." - Jeff Blair of the Montreal Gazette, on the Expos' Shane Andrews, who hit .471 (16-for-34) with six homers and 21 RBI against Cincinnati in August 1996 "The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator." - Thomas Boswell, writing in the Washington Post "Last year [1986], in 415 at bats, he had 27 homers and 80 steals. That's 40 home runs and 120 steals for a full year. [...] This year [1987], in 93 at bats, he's hitting .409 with those 12 homers, 27 RBI, 28 runs and 13 steals. For a full year, that projects to ... well, it doesn't project to anything. It's nonsense. More than 70 home runs, 170 RBI, 180 runs, 80 steals. Wayne Gretzky stats for baseball." - Thomas Boswell on Eric Davis "<strong>Baseball</strong> is religion without the mischief." - Thomas Boswell "This is a tough park for a hitter when the air conditioning is blowing in." - Bob Boone on the Astrodome in Houston "There have been only two geniuses in the world: Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare." - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress (1903-1968) "Expansion's coming up (in 1998), pitching is thin and I'm left-handed." - Former pitcher Tom Browning, who is eyeing a comeback after retiring last spring when he was unable to make the Royals' pitching staff "I was hoping we'd be opening at Joe Robbie Stadium against Elmer Milktoast and the Gigiville nine. But unfortunately, it's Bobby Cox and the world champion Atlanta Braves in Atlanta." - Florida Marlins manager John Boles on his managerial debut
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