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If six runs aren't enough for me, I need to be taken out back and shot.

After an 8-6 loss to Detroit

Charles Edward "Chuck" Finley
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

On why he became one of baseball's most colorful showmen

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Looks like it worked. I doubt that we'll get it back now. I think they gave it away to charity or something.

On the removal of the clubhouse pingpong table by management after which the Indians went on to win 17 of their next 22 home games

Paul Shuey
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher

We're a hard team to figure out. One day we look like the 1995 Indians. The next day we look more like the 1991 Indians. I just hope we have more days left in this season where we're the 1995 Indians.

Comparing his 2000 wild card contending team with the 1995 100-game-winning AL Champions and the earlier team that lost a franchise-record 105 games

Santos "Sandy" Alomar, Jr.
Cleveland Indians
Catcher

If it had been a home run or triple, would people have remembered it? Not likely.

When asked about the long ball he hit to center field at the Polo Grounds in the 1954 World Series that resulted in "The Catch" by Willie Mays

Victor Woodrow "Vic" Wertz
Cleveland Indians
1B

You have to play with pride -- for the game and for yourself. You have to go out and give a major-league effort. If you're 0-for-3 but make a major-league effort, you can go home and say, 'I gave it what I had.'

Santos "Sandy" Alomar, Jr.
Cleveland Indians
Catcher

Keep it. I don't want it.

After watching two Walter Johnson fastball strikes and heading back to the dugout, being told by the umpire that he had another one coming

Raymond Johnson "Ray" Chapman
Cleveland Indians
SS

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Woodson George "Woodie" Held
Cleveland Indians
Infielder
Contributed by: Teammate Ed Herrmann

About a year and a half or so after that World Series, a guy asked me how long it took me to get over that last game. I told him, "As soon as it happens, I'll let you know."

Reviewing the 1997 World Series which was won by the Florida Marlins over his Cleveland Indians in the 11th inning of Game 7

Dudley Michael "Mike" Hargrove
Cleveland Indians
Manager

Baseball is a kids game. Grownups just screw it up.

Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1976

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