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51 quotes found searching on Team: Giants
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
New York Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1947
I can't tell you about moments because I wasn't into that. I just played every day and enjoyed what I was doing. When I made a great catch it was just routine. I didn't worry about it. Winning was important. Winning.
Willie Howard Mays
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"
He had a routine to everything he did. The way he set his chair, the way he left his towel on the chair. The way he smoked a cigarette. He'd come back into the clubhouse and smoke a cigarette, take like three puffs and put it out. He had so many rituals, I don't know how the hell he remembered everything. I played with him in winter ball, and just going out to the mound and back to the dugout, there were ten things that he did, every inning. It was crazy.
Michael Edward "Mike" Krukow
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
a.k.a. The Polish Prince
I'm glad I didn't have a fourth pitch.
Roger Le Roy Mason
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
I should have hit .300 every year, and maybe I would have if I didn't have to hit for power. But if I had to do it all over again, I'd do the same thing, because my team needed power, and I always played for what my team needed.
Bobby Lee Bonds
San Francisco Giants
OF
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Yomiuri Tokyo Giants
1B
868 Career Home Runs in Japan
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
San Francisco Giants
3B
He's a wonder. He can start more fights, and win fewer, than anybody I ever saw.
Michael Joseph "Turkey Mike" Donlin
New York Giants
OF
As for there being anything difficult about the catch, though, the answer is there wasn't. Any ball you go a long way for is exciting to the fans in the stands, because they're not looking at you when you get your jump on it -- they're looking at the hitter. But I'd gotten the good jump, and I had running room, and the ball stayed up for me. I didn't have to pick it off the grass, I didn't have to avoid another fielder, I didn't have to crash the wall, I didn't have to jump in the air, I didn't have to gauge the wind -- there was none -- or some eccentric thing the ball itself did -- it didn't rise, fall, curve, swerve, or bend too much. I doubt there's a day goes by in the big leagues but some outfielder doesn't make a more difficult play than I did on that Wertz ball.
Willie Howard Mays
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"
Interviewer: Where did you learn to pitch?
MARICHAL: In the army.
Interviewer: Oh, what rank were you?
MARICHAL: No rank, just play baseball in army.
Interviewer: You had a good coach then?
MARICHAL: No coach. I always knew how to pitch.
Interviewer: Then, there must be ballplayers in your family -- your father, perhaps?
MARICHAL: No father. Two brothers. They can't play.
Interviewer: Then baseball must be a big game in your family.
MARICHAL: Only me. I teach myself.
An example of the mystery that always surrounded how the smiling righthander from the Dominican Republic acquired his advanced baseball knowledge
Juan Antonio Marichal
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1983; a.k.a. "The Dominican Dandy"
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