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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from swinging.

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

When you're a 25-year old kid and your dream has always been to play professional baseball, it's kind of hard to believe. When you look around and you see all of these great players, it's hard to fathom that you're in the middle of all that and that you're taking a role in that situation. Out of everybody in the country, how come I was the one playing in Yankee Stadium, standing there with my locker next to Mickey Mantle's, going out to dinner with Bobby Richardson after a game? It was just a great feeling.

Discussing playing for a World Champion team as a Rookie

Tom Tresh
New York Yankees
OF/SS
1962 AL Rookie of the Year

The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

Speaking as a ballplayer who broke into the Majors as a pitcher

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

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Reflecting on playing through injuries during the 1960's

In the late 1990's

James Alan "Jim" Bouton
New York Yankees
Pitcher

Gossage was this easy-going guy until the eighth inning. Then you'd see this metamorphosis occur. All of a sudden he looked like a wild man. I remember the first time I caught him he'd gotten behind on the hitter and there was a runner on first, so I step out in front of the plate to say something and he yells, 'Get your ass back there and catch.' Finally I go back, Goose throws three straight strikes and we're out of the inning.

On fireballing batterymate Rich "Goose" Gossage

Barry Clifton Foote
New York Yankees
Catcher

Go get it.

While a member of the Blue Jays, to manager Cito Gaston when he came out to the mound to put in a relief pitcher and asked for the ball -- Wells did not want to be replaced and fired the ball into the outfield before storming back to the dugout

David Lee Wells
New York Yankees
Pitcher

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Having been born and raised in the U.S., explaining why he had pitched only five innings as a member of the Washington Senators

In 1943
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Owen Hubbell
New York Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1947

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
New York Yankees
Catcher - OF
HOF 1972

It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

When asked by historian Fred Lieb about playing in Babe Ruth's shadow

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig
New York Yankees
First Base
HOF 1939; a.k.a. "The Iron Horse"

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