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I kind of laughed about it. Now it's starting to scare me.

Upon being traded to the Mets at age 42, after having just said that his wife has told him for years she wants him to pitch until he's 50 to keep him out of the house

December, 1999
Jesse Russell Orosco
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

Yeah, that's true. I can see why he got out of the business.

After George W. Bush said his biggest mistake was when, as managing general partner for the Texas Rangers, he traded Sammy Sosa for Baines

Harold Douglass Baines
Baltimore Orioles
DH
HOF 2019

I don't look at the numbers. You play this game to win. It's everything. It's never about you.

B. J. Surhoff
Baltimore Orioles
LF

You got a hundred more young kids than you have a place for on your club. Every one of them has had a going away party. They kissed everybody and said, "See you in the majors in two years." You see these poor kids who shouldn't be there in the first place. You write on the report card "4-4-4 and out." That's the lowest rating in everything. Then you call 'em in and say, "It's the consensus among us that we're going to let you go back home." If you say it mean enough, maybe they do themselves a favor and don't waste years learning what you can see in a day. They don't have what it takes to make the majors, just like I never had it.

Weaver's number, 4, is one of the only numbers ever retired by the Baltimore Orioles

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long.

Upon concluding his inexorable march towards 3000 hits

April 15, 2000
Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr.
Baltimore Orioles
SS
HOF 2007

I haven't given it (achieving 3000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.

Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr.
Baltimore Orioles
SS
HOF 2007

Hitting 500 homers was a lot easier. Three thousand hits is not that easy to do.

Eddie Clarence Murray
Baltimore Orioles
1B
HOF 2003

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

I've never cut a guy hitting that high before. But he was making the rest of us look bad with that average.

About demoting OF Drungo Hazewood to the minors after he batted .583 in spring training (Hazewood was brought back up late in the season and made a total of five at-bats, with four strikeouts and no hits, in six game appearances between September 19th and October 4th, which was the extent of his MLB career)

In March, 1980
Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

I did not call Johnson an idiot. Someone else did and I just agreed.

Claiming he was misquoted after being snubbed from an All-Star Game by Red Sox Manager Darrell Johnson

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

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