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My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, "Damn, that was a pretty good pitch."

Steven Norman "Steve" Carlton
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher
HOF 1994

I've been released five times, I'm bald, and I have a big nose. I'll make it through this.

On getting booed in Philadelphia

Terry Jon Francona
Philadelphia Phillies
Manager

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Michael Jack "Mike" Schmidt
Philadelphia Phillies
3B
HOF 1995

I'm going to Radio Shack to buy one of those headsets like the broadcasters use. It seems as soon as you put them on, you get 100 times smarter.

Nick Leyva
Philadelphia Phillies
Manager

You've got these smaller ballparks. Give me four more Wrigley Fields to hit in when I played and see what kind of numbers I would have put up. How many of the balls that I hit to the warning track would've been in six rows deep at Coors Field? At my peak I probably averaged about 38 homers a season. If I played today I'd probably average about 53. So if you weigh one of my old homers it might be equal to about 1.4 of today's.

After the 2000 season

Michael Jack "Mike" Schmidt
Philadelphia Phillies
3B
HOF 1995

Don't all leave at once. Leave in groups of twos and threes. They're selling rocks out there at a dollar a pail and this way they can't get us all at once.

Upon returning to Philadelphia after a road trip in which their final game, the second of a double-header, resulted in a victory that ended a 23-game losing streak, and seeing several hundred diehard fans awaiting them at the airport in the wee hours

August 21, 1961
Frank Sullivan
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher

Y'know everybody says I have good hands and everything. But the thing that makes a good shortstop is the footwork involved. If you have good footwork, if you can get to the ball, you can set up and get your body out of the way so you can make the throw, I think that's the most important thing.

In 1978
Lawrence Robert "Larry" Bowa
Philadelphia Phillies
SS

Ichiro (Suzuki) makes that team run. They've got veteran players they can really depend on in Edgar (Martinez) and (John) Olerud. (Carlos) Guillen has been better at shortstop than he was at third. David Bell doesn't get the credit he deserves. (Mike) Cameron is a really good player. But these are not front-page headline guys. This is not a team of controversy. They just play.

On the record 116-victory 2001 Seattle Mariners

Gordon Lakey
Philadelphia Phillies
Scout

You hold it like this and throw the shit out of it.

To fellow Phillies pitcher Dick Ruthven on how to throw a slider

Steven Norman "Steve" Carlton
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher
HOF 1994

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

David Raymond "Dave" Coggin
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher

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