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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

I should have hit .300 every year, and maybe I would have if I didn't have to hit for power. But if I had to do it all over again, I'd do the same thing, because my team needed power, and I always played for what my team needed.

The .268 career hitter reflecting back to 1970, the only season in which he hit over .300

Bobby Lee Bonds
San Francisco Giants
OF

I did my job. The ball didn't do its job.

After missing a ball in the outfield

Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp
Cleveland Indians
OF

I enjoyed the challenge of hitting. I wanted to see what the Hall of Famers were like. Who knows? If I got a hit or two off them, maybe I was as good as they were. I never accepted failure. You have to believe you can hit anyone, and I did. I can hit anybody out there at certain times, if you give me enough shots. And that's the way you have to believe. Guys like McLain and Lolich and Gibson felt the same about hitters: 'I can get anyone out.' They have the same positive attitude. It's a challenge. That's what makes the game so much fun. I enjoyed the challenge every day.

In a 2003 interview
James Thomas "Jim" Northrup
Detroit Tigers
OF

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