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Your heart must be in your work.

Christopher "Christy" Mathewson
New York Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1936

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I'm a firm believer in going out and playing my hardest. I'm doing my job. As long as I am doing my best, I shouldn't take a bow because I am doing my job.

Turk Wendell
New York Mets
Pitcher

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Reminiscing on his early days with the Braves and hitting a home run off of Whitey Ford during a spring training game and seeing Mickey Mantle watch it go over the fence

In 2000 on Whitey Ford Day
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014

I notice the mounted police are circling the field along with German shepherds to keep the fans from storming the diamond. All of a sudden, one of the horses makes a "deposit" on the turf and I thought, "If I don't get Wilson out, that's what I'll be in this town." Then I noticed one of the dogs and thought, "K-9 Corps -- that's what I need, a K in the 9th!"

While pitching for Philadelphia in 1980, on striking out Willie Wilson of Kansas City in Game 6 of the World Series to give the first World Championship to the Phillies

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw
New York Mets
Pitcher

I only have one superstition. I make sure to tag every base when I hit a home run.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

I got a win, in my major-league debut, in Fenway Park, against the Red Sox, in a pennant race. It's the most exciting day of my life.

September 13, 2000

Randy Dean Keisler
New York Yankees
Pitcher

I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study...I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

On White Sox slugger 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

At age 72 when asked by Mickey Mantle if he had ever played ball

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was, and I know what kind of person Whitey is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family.

On breaking Whitey Ford's postseason scoreless streak of 33 innings

Mariano Rivera
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 2019

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

On pitching in the post season

Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez
New York Yankees
Pitcher

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