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Hell, I don't ever know if I'm going to get two hits. What I do know is that if I don't get 'em today, I'm sure going to get 'em tomorrow.

When asked how it felt to come to the park every day knowing that he would get two hits in the upcoming game

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

The best 20 seconds in baseball is running around those bases after getting one over the fence.

Michael Thomas Conforto
San Francisco Giants
OF

I played with Willie Mays, and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
New York Giants
OF
HOF 1973; a.k.a. "Mr. Murder"

In the matter of gloves, it is up to the player himself to provide himself with a mitt which he can handle comfortably and deftly. Hank Greenberg played first base for Detroit with a glove so large that rival managers called it the "crab net," and there was even some talk of protesting to the league that it was illegal. Yet when Greenberg went to the outfield for the Tigers and Rudy York played first, York wore a glove that looked hardly larger than the mitten used by the motorman of a trolley car.

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"

It was 1948. Satchel had a very, very good fastball. But he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence and I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, "Let me know when that little boy comes back up." Three innings later, I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle, and I hear the third baseman say, "There he is." Satch looked at the third baseman, and then he looked at me. I walk halfway to home plate and he says, "Little boy..." I say, "Yes, sir?" because Satch was much older than me, so I was trying to show respect. He walked halfway to home plate and said, "Little boy, I'm not going to trick you. I'm going to throw you three fastballs and you're going to go sit down." And I'm saying in my mind, "I don't think so." If he threw me three of the same pitch, I'm going to hit it somewhere. He threw me two fastballs and I just swung; swung right through it. And the third ball he threw, and I tell people this all the time, he threw the ball and then he started walking. And he says, "Go sit down." This is while the ball was in the air. He was just a magnificent pitcher.

Describing when, as a 17-year-old, he faced Satchel Paige for the first time

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

Jim Who??

When the media asked for his reaction to Jim Bouton's book, Ball Four

In 1970

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

When I got back to the clubhouse, I just sat down on my stool and held my head in my hands, like I was going to start crying. I heard somebody come up to me, and it was little Timmy Berra, Yogi’s boy, standing there next to me. He tapped me on the knee, nice and soft, and I figured he was going to say something nice to me, you know, like, “You keep hanging in there,” or something like that, but all he did was look at me, and then he said in his little kid’s voice, “You stink.”

On an uncharacteristically awful afternoon when he’d struck out three consecutive times

During the 1950’s
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

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