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I ain't ever had a job. I just always play baseball.

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

The batter still hits a grounder. But in this case the first bounce is 360 feet away.

On what happens when his sinker isn't working

Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

I'd rather be the shortest player in the Majors than the tallest player in the minors.

At 5-foot 5-inches tall, on how it felt to be the shortest MLB player

Frederick Joseph Patek
Kansas City Royals
SS

It all looks so easy from the dugout. It's called the 'dirt rule'. The farther you get away from the dirt, the easier this game looks. It looks pretty darned easy from the upper deck. And, like I say, it looks easy to me now. I'm sitting in the dugout, and I see a guy try to pull an outside pitch, he hits a slow ground ball to second base, and it drives me crazy. I'm thinking, 'Why does he do that? Why is this guy so stupid?' Of course, I must have done the exact same thing 5000 times when I was a player.

George Howard Brett
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999

Hitting is a strange thing. You're so smart talking about hitting, and then you step into the batter's box, and something happens to you. You get stupid. It's like everything goes out the window. You step into the batter's box, and immediately you turn into a third-grader. Fortunately, pitchers are like second-graders.

George Howard Brett
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999

I used a corked bat from the first year in Kansas City, all the way till the end of my career. But you don't use a corked bat every time.

Amos Joseph Otis
Kansas City Royals
OF

Today's players are only going to do what makes them more money. The agent tells his player what management is looking for and what his player is noted for. Most times it's not for hitting triples. You're either a singles hitter, a doubles hitter or a home run hitter. You never hear anyone say, 'That guy's a triples hitter.' I don't know of too many arbitration cases that have been won because the guy could hit triples.

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Muser
Kansas City Royals
Manager

Here's a kid right out of high school who goes on the major league mound and pitches as if he were a veteran. Catfish never showed a bit of fear or nervousness, anything that most rookies would show in that situation. He just picked up on major league baseball like it was another day back at his high school in Hertford, North Carolina.

On teammate and roommate Jim "Catfish" Hunter

Jackie Delane "Jack" Aker
Kansas City Athletics
Pitcher

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

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