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Hank Aaron and Willie Mays and I talk about it all the time. Sammy is the most prolific power hitter we have ever seen. His balance and power and technique and ability to hit the ball to all fields...he is an amazing hitter.

On Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa

Ernest "Ernie" Banks
Chicago Cubs
SS
HOF 1977; a.k.a. "Mr. Cub"

I looked like I was using a boxing glove down there. I think that hurt me a lot because it looked like the position was playing me.

Understanding his increase in bench time after committing a number of errors during spring training

April 9, 2001
Herbert Perry
Chicago White Sox
3B

They're all pretty much the same except for Pedro.

Singling out Boston's Pedro Martinez as being above the rest in a discussion of the difficulty in figuring out AL pitchers

April 11, 2001
Herbert Perry
Chicago White Sox
3B

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

On being a role model (with some misused language)

Andre Dawson
Chicago Cubs
OF
HOF 2010

I've never been to Yankee Stadium. I've never played the Yankees all these years. I've always been in the National League, and, believe it or not, the Cubs have never played the Yankees in the postseason.

Playing for Arizona in 2001, a few days before the start of the World Series between the Diamondbacks and the Yankees

Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

The real test comes when you are pitching with men on bases. Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve. In other instances, where the batter appears anxious to hit, waste a little time on him and when you think he realizes his position and everybody is yelling at him to hit it out, waste a few balls and try his nerve; the majority of times you will win out by drawing him into hitting a wide one.

Andrew Bishop "Rube" Foster
Chicago American Giants
Manager
HOF 1981

I think they're the greatest ball club I've ever seen. Period.

During the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, while on the witness stand after an exhaustive cross examination addressing cheating among ballplayers which culminated with the question, "Well. What do you think of these players of yours NOW, Mr. Gleason?"

William J. "Kid" Gleason
Chicago White Sox
Manager

If he had, I would have knocked him down with the next pitch.

In a discussion of Babe Ruth's supposed "called shot" in the 1932 World Series, addressing whether Ruth had in fact pointed in the direction of the bleachers

Charles Henry "Charley" Root
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

I focus on making that one pitch. That's what I tell myself, "One pitch." You can't worry about the next one. Even with a good hitter, he'll get out seven times out of ten. I want to make sure that this is one of those seven.

Describing his passion for protecting a one-run or two-run lead when one pitch can make all the difference

Thomas "Tom" Gordon
Chicago Cubs
Relief Pitcher
a.k.a. "Flash"

I lost the ball in the moon.

To manager Frank Frisch during a night game after pursuing and calling for a fly ball which landed 20 feet in front of him

Hank Sauer
Chicago Cubs
LF

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