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A lotta folks who ain't saying ain't, ain't eatin'. So, Teach, you learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball.

Said on the air in response to an English teacher who wrote to him, complaining that he shouldn't use the word "ain't" on the air, as it was a bad example to children

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Well, Pee Wee, I've been watching him for four innings and I believe that's a baseball he's throwing.

When Pee Wee Reese asked what a pitcher was throwing

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

I never threw a "heavy" ball. My pitch started just above my head and leg to about my shoulders. I most used fastballs and a change of pace. My control was good, so when I used a curve it would break right around the man's knees. I never used no freak balls, less I seen the other feller doing it. Then I might take a piece of emery and rub a spot on the ball about the size of a dime. That pitch would do tricks. Did I use that pitch every game, I'd never have lost. Not once. Once in a while I tried a knuckler, but no spitter. I just didn't like that pitch. I pitched a lot of good ball in my time. I'da been in the majors, too, if'n my hair wasn't so curly. Anything but colored, I'da made it. I don't know why it is they give us such a hard time. We all the same really. We all sit on that old common denominator.

The Hall of Fame pitcher reminiscing about his long Negro League career which didn't come to an end until he was 46 in 1932

Joseph "Joe" Williams
Homestead Grays
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Cyclone", "Smokey"
HOF 1999

(His fastball) makes mine look like a change of pace.

Describing Satchel Paige with forgivable (and typical) exaggeration

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1962; a.k.a. "Rapid Robert"

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, "See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer."

Michael Stephen "Mickey" Lolich
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher

What a terrific spitball pitcher he was. Bugs drank a lot, you know, and sometimes it seemed like the more he drank the better he pitched. They used to say he didn't spit on the ball, he blew his breath on it and the ball would come up drunk.

On teammate Bugs Raymond

Richard William "Rube" Marquard
New York Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1971

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1976

I'll have to get nervous all over again.

When his first opening day start was postponed to the next day due to weather

April 10, 1959
Robert Carl "Bob" Anderson
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

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