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Blade (SS Mark Belanger) and Brooksie (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer.

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, "Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as old Ripken was."

In 1983, only 280 games into "The Streak"

Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr.
Baltimore Orioles
SS
HOF 2007

Well, unless he was sitting in the third deck, there was no reason to move.

Describing why Orioles OF Albert Belle stood motionless during a Bernie Williams home run at Yankee Stadium on 4/18/99

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

I feel sorry for the fans. You pay that much money to see a game, you expect to see professionals play... We walked 14 people today. We pitched like a bunch of 12-year-olds. We had a guy get picked off when we're six runs down....If you want any more stories, go out in the clubhouse. They're the ones making all the money. Have them explain how they did and how they performed in front of 47,000 people. That's all I have to say.

After the Orioles 11-10 loss to the Oakland Athletics. The Orioles started the 1999 season with the third highest payroll, and the worst record 4-14.

Raymond Roger "Ray" Miller
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

It's just throwing and catching and hitting and running. What's simpler than that?

Paul Rapier Richards
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

Sometimes you see somebody standing there watching a home run for a while, and that's not fun for a pitcher to see. It's (also) not good for a pitcher to scream at a batter after he's struck him out, or doing arm motions. I come from the old school. Hit the ball, run, throw, catch it -- that's the way the game should be played.

In discussing ballplayers showing up other players

Jesse Russell Orosco
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

I've got nothing against the bunt ... in its place. But most of the time, that place is at the bottom of a long forgotten closet.

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

Your stats are just too good. You can't be as bad as you look.

To first baseman Jim Gentile upon including him on the team roster despite a spring training of dropped balls, getting caught off base, and everything else that would irritate a manager

Paul Rapier Richards
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

Pitch fast, throw strikes, change speeds.

When he was a pitching coach

Raymond Roger "Ray" Miller
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
Contributed by: BoSoxGent

I kind of laughed about it. Now it's starting to scare me.

Upon being traded to the Mets at age 42, after having just said that his wife has told him for years she wants him to pitch until he's 50 to keep him out of the house

December, 1999
Jesse Russell Orosco
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

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