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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.

The .268 career hitter reflecting back to 1970, the only season in which he hit over .300

Bobby Lee Bonds
San Francisco Giants
OF

I did my job. The ball didn't do its job.

After missing a ball in the outfield

Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp
Cleveland Indians
OF

I enjoyed the challenge of hitting. I wanted to see what the Hall of Famers were like. Who knows? If I got a hit or two off them, maybe I was as good as they were. I never accepted failure. You have to believe you can hit anyone, and I did. I can hit anybody out there at certain times, if you give me enough shots. And that's the way you have to believe. Guys like McLain and Lolich and Gibson felt the same about hitters: 'I can get anyone out.' They have the same positive attitude. It's a challenge. That's what makes the game so much fun. I enjoyed the challenge every day.

In a 2003 interview
James Thomas "Jim" Northrup
Detroit Tigers
OF

If he'd ever been sawed in half, I think three-fourths of the Yankee Stadium concessions would have been found inside of him.

Talking about Babe Ruth

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

A telegram to teammate Waite Hoyt after the two had been out drinking and Hoyt subsequently landing in the hospital, the newspapers reporting that he'd had "a case of amnesia"

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

Uh-uh. No, no. I'm not going to be around.

With San Francisco's Barry Bonds only 20 home runs away from Aaron's record 755, on whether he plans to be at the ballpark if/when Bonds breaks his record (he added, "I'd probably fly to West Palm Beach to play golf" when asked if he'd attend if Bonds would be within reach of the record when the Giants play in Atlanta in August)

April 10, 2007
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982

Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Terrence Moore

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

In 1981
Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1988

You'd run fast too if you had five wives.

When asked how he'd come to be a fast baserunner

Enos Bradsher "Country" Slaughter
St. Louis Cardinals
OF
HOF 1985

He had Whitey Ford's stuff and Edsel Ford's luck.

On pitching teammate Ken MacKenzie

Don Richard "Richie" Ashburn
New York Mets
OF
HOF 1995

You slow up half a step and it's the beginning of your last ball game. It might take a few years, but you're on your way out.

Harold Patrick "Pete" Reiser
Brooklyn Dodgers
OF

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