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We know we're idiots, we know we're cowboys, but we also know we're world champions.
10/27/04
Johnny David Damon
Boston Red Sox
CF
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
Contributed by: Jannie
They're a grubby-looking bunch of caterwaulers.
In 2004 at age 96
William Murray "Billy" Werber
Boston Red Sox
3B
Contributed by: Rich Bohn
He was a moody guy, a tantrum thrower like me. But when he punched a locker or something he always did it with his right hand. He was a careful tantrum thrower.
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966
I came home and told my mother about the money, and she said that was fine. "Who will you play for?" "Uh, the Texas Liquor House." If I had said Murder, Inc., I wouldn't have gotten a quicker refusal.
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966
The ball came sailing right toward my chin; normally a hitter can jerk his head back a fraction and the ball will buzz by. But this pitch seemed to follow me in. I know I didn't freeze. I definitely made a move to get out of the way of the ball. In fact, I jerked my head back so hard that my helmet flipped off just before impact. When the ball was about four feet from my head I knew it would get me. And I knew it would hurt because Hamilton was such a hard thrower. I was frightened. I threw my hands up in front of my face and saw the ball follow me back and hit me square on the left side of the head. As soon as it crunched into me, it felt as if the ball would go in one side of my head and come out the other; my legs gave way and I went down like a sack of potatoes. Just before everything went dark I saw the ball bounce straight down on home plate. It was the last thing I saw for several days.
Anthony Richard "Tony" Conigliaro
Boston Red Sox
RF
I saw it all happen, from beginning to end. But sometimes I still can't believe what I saw: this nineteen-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over -- a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since. I saw a man transformed from a human being into something pretty close to a god. If somebody had predicted that back on the Boston Red Sox in 1914, he would have been thrown into a lunatic asylum.
Harry Bartholomew Hooper
Boston Red Sox
OF
Hall of Fame, 1971
If it had been me out there, I'd have bitten Barnett's ear off. I'd have van Goghed him!
William Francis "Bill" Lee
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"
Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
The plate is 17 inches wide. But I'm only concerned with 5 inches -- 2-1/2 on the one side and 2-1/2 on the other. I never use the rest.
Boston Braves
Pitcher
HOF 1973
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