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204 quotes found searching on Position: OF
I've been from the best player in the world to a bum, washed up, I've been through so much in the game, more probably than anybody else.
José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"
I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study...I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936
When they tear this old place down they're going to take a piece of my heart with it.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982
Leave him alone or I'll buy your team.
Michael Jordan
Birmingham Barons
OF
Class AA Southern League
You've got to bring on the same intensity no matter what the circumstances may be.
Los Angeles Dodgers
OF
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
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.
Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1988
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from swinging.
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936
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.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936
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