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Hey mister, can you spell "shit"?

When a spectator heckled the virtually illiterate slugger, asking "Hey Jackson, can you spell 'cat'?"

Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Chicago White Sox
OF
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

This guy's pitching like he's double-parked outside the facility here.

Describing White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle in a game that took less than two hours to complete, doing radio play-by-play and echoing an old Vin Scully comment regarding Bob Gibson's pitching style

Edward Joseph "Ed" Farmer
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

I've seen all the best players of the past twenty years and no one's been better than Joe. I never tired of watching him bat. It was a pleasure to see him swing and when he hit the ball there was a ring to it that pleased the ear.

On former teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

Edward Trowbridge "Eddie" Collins, Sr.
Chicago White Sox
2B

Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man that ever played in the big leagues, and I don't except Babe Ruth.

On former teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

Edward Augustine "Big Ed" Walsh
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

My assumption is that I'm probably going to face the best left-hander on somebody's team with guys on base and their chance for glory. I'm going to go try to get that guy out, and if I do my job, nobody will notice. If I don't, I'll read about it in the paper.

Upon being acquired by the White Sox prior to the 2011 season and discussing his possible role as a situational reliever

William McDaniel "Will" Ohman
Chicago White Sox
Left-Handed Relief Pitcher

Give me a new ball. One you can see.

After an opposing player drew a walk, to home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott after which Pierzynski was promptly ejected from the game

Anthony John "A.J." Pierzynski
Chicago White Sox
Catcher

There are people back home washing cars who did that to me.

After the first 4-strikeout game of his major league career, when asked by reporters if it had ever happened to him before

Ronald Dale "Ron" Kittle
Chicago White Sox
LF

You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever.

George Daniel "Buck" Weaver
Chicago White Sox
IF

There are murderers who serve a sentence and then get out. I got life.

After being banned from baseball for life with the other seven "Black Sox Scandal" ballplayers despite not being involved in the 1919 World Series fix

George Daniel "Buck" Weaver
Chicago White Sox
IF

When Cobb is on first base and breaks for second, the best thing you can do, really, is throw to third.

On Tigers OF Ty Cobb's baserunning abilities

Ray William Schalk
Chicago White Sox
C
HOF 1955

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