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Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

On his retirement

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

He didn't show what a rookie's supposed to show. You know, going crazy wild and throwing crap all over the place.

On the Braves' rookie pitcher Kevin Millwood

In 1999
Leo David Mazzone
Atlanta Braves
Pitching Coach

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

On losing first game of the 1999 World Series

Gregory Alan "Greg" Maddux
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
HOF 2014; a.k.a. "Mad Dog"

Contributed by: Mag

I've never seen a team play a perfect World Series before, I think I just did.

On being swept by the Yankees in the 1999 World Series

John Andrew Smoltz
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
HOF 2015

Contributed by: Mag

He starts into the hitting area slow, then it slows down more.

On Garth Brooks' swing

Mervin Weldon "Merv" Rettenmund
Atlanta Braves
Hitting Coach

I was with the Yankees the spring (pitcher Mike) Kekich and (pitcher Fritz) Peterson switched wives.

With his team having dealt with John Rocker's suspension, John Smoltz's season-ending injury, and Andres Galarraga's return from cancer, recalling 1973 when asked whether he has ever had so tumultuous a spring

April, 2000
Robert Joseph "Bobby" Cox
Atlanta Braves
Manager
HOF 2014

When they tear this old place down they're going to take a piece of my heart with it.

On the impending demolition of County Stadium in Milwaukee (which took place in February of 2001) where he played for 14 seasons of his career including the stadium's inaugural 1954 season as well as the final two seasons of his career (1975-76)

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

Look, I was on Rush Street until 4 a.m. too, but it's time to play.

When playing a day game at Wrigley Field, to teammate and fellow infielder Felix Mantilla, with Mathews having lifted him off his feet pinning him against a wall, after the first inning in which Mantilla made a pair of two-out throwing errors to put the Cubs up 4-0 (the Braves rallied to win in 10 innings -- on a Mantilla hit)

Edwin Lee "Eddie" Mathews
Milwaukee Braves
3B
HOF 1978

Hitting is timing; pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Edward Spahn
Boston Braves
Pitcher
HOF 1973

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