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There was a change after the seventh inning, but facing the Dodgers of that era, you know that anything could happen. I was very nervous in the ninth, but conscious of the fact that this was a big game and that I had eight great players behind me.

Discussing his perfect game in the 1956 World Series

Don James Larsen
New York Yankees
Pitcher

Ah, just watch me do it.

Standing around the batting cage trying to explain hitting to some of the guys, and talking about his hands and his legs but not quite being able to make himself clear

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

What kept you?!?

To his manager when he was on the mound getting creamed by the opposing team and finally being pulled for a relief pitcher

Frederick Lealand "Fred" Talbot
New York Yankees
P

I don't want you to think that I didn't enjoy being a sportscaster. On the contrary, when I wasn't being fired, I was having a wonderful time.

Discussing one of his occupations after his playing days

James Alan "Jim" Bouton
New York Yankees
Pitcher

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Drop a ball from a 20-foot ladder and have me try to hit it, going straight down. Even for the best hitters in the world, that's gonna be tough to do. Now give me a 100-mph fastball -- straight, in the zone -- I'll hit it every time. I may not get a hit, but I'm gonna hit it. But if you do it the other way, that's what a curveball does. A good curveball with a lot of break, it's not necessarily that I don't recognize it, but it's moving so much that it's tougher to square up.

Comparing a batter's perspective to the fastball and the curve

Mark Charles Teixeira
New York Yankees
1B

That's a good one! That's all right! It's a slow-in curve to a right-handed batter. A change of pace with a curve ball. A regular fallaway or fadeaway. That's a good ball!

To 19-year-old pitcher Christy Matthewson when he demonstrated a pitch he had developed that eventually became known as a screwball

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George Stacey Davis
New York Giants
Shortstop/Manager
HOF 1998

It's the finest cola drink I ever tasted.

In an ad for Red Rock Cola

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

Yeah, but the last time you faced him was this same inning.

When managing the Mets and pitcher Tug McGraw wanted to be left in the game after saying that he wasn't tired and that he'd struck out the batter he was about to face in his preceding at-bat

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

I didn't begin cheating until late in my career when I needed something to help me survive. I didn't cheat when I won the 25 games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas and take my Cy Young Award away. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won 24 games. Well, maybe a little.

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1974

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