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How many people were at your game? Twenty? Yesterday I dropped a fly ball in front of 40,000. Don't worry about it.

To a despondent Little Leaguer who was considering hanging up his cleats after being picked off base to end a game

Luis Gonzalez
Arizona Diamondbacks
OF

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

I don't have to read your stuff anymore. You and those two columnists. You guys are killing baseball in that town. But I like you anyway. We're pals, right, even though I think you're a (expletive).

Expressing happiness to a Cleveland baseball writer after being traded by the Indians to Washington

After the 1961 season
James Anthony "Jimmy" Piersall
Boston Red Sox
OF

I came into the game just looking to hit the ball hard.

After setting four NCAA Big East Conference baseball records with 8 hits, 7 runs, 14 RBIs and 23 total bases in a 35-4 win over Georgetown

April 21, 2002
Brad Bauder
Virginia Tech Hokies
OF

The Browns couldn't beat the Monarchs. Only if we was asleep. That's the truth. They didn't have nothing.

After playing in just 21 MLB games (between July 19 and August 17, 1947) and being the first black player to hit a home run in the AL, upon quitting the team to the astonishment of the baseball community and returning to the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League

Willard Jessie Brown
St. Louis Browns
OF
HOF 2006

I know a lot about flowers. Those are red, those are yellow, and the ones over there are purple and green.

Upon a visit to his florist shop in Clayton, Missouri, by an old teammate and responding to "What the heck do you know about flowers?"

Louis Clark "Lou" Brock
St. Louis Cardinals
OF
HOF 1985

Ten days you guys spend teaching me how to go up the hill and there isn't one of you with the brains to teach me how to come down again.

During his first game as a Red Sox left fielder and having learned to negotiate the incline leading to Fenway Park's left field wall, he overran a fly ball and came back down the incline, falling flat on his face and getting hit on the head by the ball

In 1932
Smead Powell Jolley
Boston Red Sox
OF

I can't tell you about moments because I wasn't into that. I just played every day and enjoyed what I was doing. When I made a great catch it was just routine. I didn't worry about it. Winning was important. Winning.

Putting it all into perspective

Willie Howard Mays
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"

I think I faced him eight times, and he probably struck me out eight times. I told him, "When we meet in an old-timers' game, I'm going to get you. I'm going to get a hit off you, stop the game and retrieve the ball."

On fireball pitcher Goose Gossage

Rickey Nelson Henry Henderson
Oakland Athletics
OF
HOF 2009

Slump? What are you talking about -- slump? You think a guy who hit over 500 home runs is in a slump? Give me a break. Next.

When asked in a pre-game conference about being in a slump (batting average of .229 spanning the preceding 30 days)

September 23, 2003
Samuel Peralta "Sammy" Sosa
Chicago Cubs
OF

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