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People make light of my optimistic outlook, such as, if I were captain of the Titanic, I would tell my passengers we were stopping for ice.

After yet another losing season

Charles William "Chuck" Tanner
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager

Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water, the other third by Garry Maddox.

Artfully describing the fielding prowess of the Phillies' outfielder

Ralph McPherran Kiner
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1975

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

Roberto Clemente
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1973

Now I know why they boo Richie all the time. When he hits a home run, there's no souvenir.

Impressed after watching Dick Allen launch a home run that cleared two-deck Connie Mack Stadium

Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1988

We play a game of failure. When you fail 70 percent of the time (at the plate), failure doesn't really enter in your mind. To be successful in our game, you can't think about failing.

Roberto Martin Antonio "Bobby" Bonilla
Pittsburgh Pirates
3B - OF

I believe we owe something to the people who watch us. When we don't try 100%, we steal from them.

Roberto Clemente
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1973

When you had Willie Stargell on your team, it was like having a diamond ring on your finger.

Charles William "Chuck" Tanner
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager

They can talk about all the great Pirates -- and there have been a lot of them. But Maz represents the spirit of Pittsburgh and the Pirates as well or better than any of them. And what's really scary is that Maz set all those records not on a carpet (AstroTurf) but on the Forbes Field surface. A lot of visiting players wouldn't take infield at Forbes Field. Think about the numbers Maz would have put up if he'd have played on artificial turf and wouldn't have had all those bad hops. They might have had to put him into the Hall Of Fame five years before he retired.

On former teammate and ace second baseman Bill Mazeroski's ultimate induction into the Hall Of Fame in 2001, nearly thirty years after he retired

Stephen Robert "Steve" Blass
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher

My mother could have managed Barry Bonds -- that's how good he is.

Jim Leyland
Pittsburgh Pirates
Manager

Errors are part of my game. One night in Pittsburgh, 30,000 fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

Dick "Dr. Strangeglove" Stuart
Pittsburgh Pirates
1B

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