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Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967

Just about the three greatest pitches on Earth.

Commenting on Pedro Martinez's fastball, slider and changeup

Chuck LaMay
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
General Manager

If things do wind up working out, it will be because it was a good fit for both sides, not because we showed him a good time. I don't believe there is a need to show him Chicago. He has been to Chicago and from what I understand he has had a good time already.

Discussing the possibility of signing Seattle IF Alex Rodriguez

November, 2000
Ken Williams
Chicago White Sox
General Manager

We've never been in that position. We wouldn't know how to operate; I mean, do we get him a corsage?

On a small-market team courting a big-name free agent

William Lamar "Billy" Beane
Oakland Athletics
General Manager

Would you please stop saying that?

Interrupting Randy Johnson at his Cy Young Award news conference when Johnson started out a sentence with, "If I retire tomorrow..."

After the 2001 season
Joe Garagiola Jr.
Arizona Diamondbacks
General Manager

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance; statesmen, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967

"(Eddie) Stanky couldn't hit, couldn't run, couldn't field, and couldn't throw, but he was the best player on the club. All Mr. Stanky could do for you was win.

Speaking of infielder and team sparkplug Eddie Stanky and knowing what was really important

Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967

The way we were perceived the entire year, all until the last out (in the World Series) really...the players didn't get many accolades from the national scene. The way I figured it, before me, they certainly should get (recognition). So if they are not getting it, I don't want it. We are all in this together.

On the 2005 Executive of the Year award that eluded the intrepid GM of the World Champion team

Kenneth Royal "Kenny" Williams
Chicago White Sox
General Manager

My eight years in Brooklyn gave me a new vision of America, or rather America gave me a new vision of a part of itself, Brooklyn. They were wonderful years. A community of over three million people, proud, hurt, jealous, seeking geographical, social, emotional status as a city apart and alone and sufficient. One could not live for eight years in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion to its baseball club, such as no other city in America equaled. Call it loyalty, and so it was. It would be a crime against a community of three million people to move the Dodgers. Not that the move was unlawful, since people have the right to do as they please with their property. But a baseball club in any city in America is a quasi-public institution, and in Brooklyn the Dodgers were public without the quasi.

Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shalt steal, and thou must.

Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967

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