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I could never play in New York. The first time I came into a game there, I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.

Michael Kendall "Mike" Flanagan
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

This ain't a football game; we do this every day.

Earl Sidney Weaver
Baltimore Orioles
Manager
HOF 1996

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Brooks Calbert Robinson
Baltimore Orioles
3B
HOF 1983

The Mets is a very good thing. They give everybody a job. Just like the WPA.

William "Billy" Loes
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about.

Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Sr.
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

He has enough power to hit a home run in any park, including Yellowstone.

On Minnesota Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew

Paul Rapier Richards
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

I lost it in the sun.

Asserting how he had misplayed Vic Raschi's grounder during a 1952 World Series game

William "Billy" Loes
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

Too much spit.

Why the ball popped out of his glove resulting in a balk

William "Billy" Loes
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

Every time Phil (Niekro) pitches, (catcher Bob) Uecker is the one who needs four days' rest.

When he was Vice President of the Braves, referencing the difficulty in catching Niekro's knuckleball

Paul Rapier Richards
Baltimore Orioles
Manager

Davey was the only guy I know who went to John Hopkins University and played in the major leagues. When we won the World Series in 1970, he took a television at cost instead of a World Series ring. He said, "I don't have a television." We're in an era now where everyone talks about "The ring. The ring." This was the only one he would have gotten. But he was just more practical. Davey was the ninth guy on a nine-man staff, happy to do whatever (manager) Earl (Weaver) asked. Nowadays the money is so excessive. Davey played the game because he loved to play. To me, that's what the game is all about.

On teammate and roommate Dave Leonhard (RHP)

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

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