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The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson
Oakland Athletics
Outfielder
HOF 1993; a.k.a. "Mr. October"

You have probably heard that I use my scorecard to convey information. Since our opponents know this, they keep a close watch on every movement I make with my scorecard, but this is fortified with many other devices.

Cornelius Alexander "Connie Mack" McGillicuddy
Philadelphia Athletics
Manager
HOF 1937

I was missing by about 10 mph.

On going 0 for 4 against Cleveland's Bartolo Colon's 98 mph fastball.

Ben Grieve
Oakland Athletics
OF

I would probably hit .240 with about 18 home runs. I'm 53 years old, brother.

During the 1999 season, when asked what kind of numbers he'd produce in today's game

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson
Oakland Athletics
Outfielder
HOF 1993; a.k.a. "Mr. October"

You think I'll need this?

To reporters with reference to his role as DH — shortly after reporting to spring training for Tampa Bay while shuffling through his locker, peeling the plastic off a new baseball glove

February 1999
José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

I think if you can grab the average fan and bring them out here and have somebody throw it 95 mph, I think the first five or six pitches they probably would not even see. You have to condition your eyes to pick the baseball up. If you can imagine putting a flashlight in a dark room up against the wall and make circles, moving it as quickly as possible, darting in and out, back and forth, that's what a baseball looks like.

On what a batter sees of a major league fastball

José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

A waste. It isn't how far, it's how far fair.

Upon hitting a ball that went over concession stands, seats, and completely out of the Oakland Coliseum, but was foul

José Capas Canseco
Oakland Athletics
OF

If it so happens that I never play again, I know that I left everything I had out there on the field. That's the first thing Sparky (Anderson) taught me. 'Did you do everything out there to be the best player you could?' If you did, and something happens, it can't bother you. That's my peace of mind.

Upon being placed on the disabled list with a broken leg during his 18th major league season

Keith Anthony "Tony" Phillips
Oakland Athletics
2B

Here's a kid right out of high school who goes on the major league mound and pitches as if he were a veteran. Catfish never showed a bit of fear or nervousness, anything that most rookies would show in that situation. He just picked up on major league baseball like it was another day back at his high school in Hertford, North Carolina.

On teammate and roommate Jim "Catfish" Hunter

Jackie Delane "Jack" Aker
Kansas City Athletics
Pitcher

When I went over to Oakland in '73, Catfish Hunter never shook me off. I asked him why and he told me, 'It's your job to know the hitters.'

Ray Fosse
Oakland Athletics
Catcher

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