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I would probably hit .240 with about 18 home runs. I'm 53 years old, brother.

During the 1999 season, when asked what kind of numbers he'd produce in today's game

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson
Oakland Athletics
Outfielder
HOF 1993; a.k.a. "Mr. October"

You think I'll need this?

To reporters with reference to his role as DH — shortly after reporting to spring training for Tampa Bay while shuffling through his locker, peeling the plastic off a new baseball glove

February 1999
José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

I think if you can grab the average fan and bring them out here and have somebody throw it 95 mph, I think the first five or six pitches they probably would not even see. You have to condition your eyes to pick the baseball up. If you can imagine putting a flashlight in a dark room up against the wall and make circles, moving it as quickly as possible, darting in and out, back and forth, that's what a baseball looks like.

On what a batter sees of a major league fastball

José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

A waste. It isn't how far, it's how far fair.

Upon hitting a ball that went over concession stands, seats, and completely out of the Oakland Coliseum, but was foul

José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

If it so happens that I never play again, I know that I left everything I had out there on the field. That's the first thing Sparky (Anderson) taught me. 'Did you do everything out there to be the best player you could?' If you did, and something happens, it can't bother you. That's my peace of mind.

Upon being placed on the disabled list with a broken leg during his 18th major league season

Keith Anthony "Tony" Phillips
Oakland Athletics
2B

When I went over to Oakland in '73, Catfish Hunter never shook me off. I asked him why and he told me, 'It's your job to know the hitters.'

Ray Fosse
Oakland Athletics
Catcher

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everyone likes ice cream. But you don't like it when it's being shoved down you by the gallon.

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson
Oakland Athletics
Outfielder
HOF 1993; a.k.a. "Mr. October"

He's not your prototypical leadoff hitter, but there's nothing wrong with hitting a double to start the game

On outfielder Terrence Long

Art Howe
Oakland Athletics
Manager

That depends on how small market we really are.

When asked if he thought he'd have to pay for the window he broke in a football luxury box at the Oakland Coliseum with a home run

Sal Fasano
Oakland Athletics
Catcher

People love home runs. Not just home runs, but long home runs. The kind you don't think, "Is it out?" The kind you think, "How far out is it?" The kind where (a hitter) can just stand and watch. It's power. It's strength. It's the complete domination of a baseball.

José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

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