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If we had played according to the money we made, I guess none of us would have ever been ballplayers long.

A comment on Negro League salaries

Eugene "Gene" Benson
Philadelphia Stars
OF
Negro National League

You know, I didn't think I was that bad a ballplayer. But they're making a believer out of me.

Upon being sent back down to triple-A

James Charles "Jim" Gosger
Kansas City Athletics
OF

The Alzheimer's Game.

His reference to Oldtimer's Game

Norman Calvin "Norm" Miller
Houston Astros
OF

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974

A hustlin' ballplayer is a feller who never lets up for a minute, never gives his body a rest from trying. He's out there every second of the time playing as hard as he can, no matter how many runs he's ahead. He don' know what it means to take it easy and loaf along. He's ALWAYS working. Lou Gehrig was the hustlin'est ballplayer I ever saw, and I admired him for it. When I first saw him break into the lineup, as a rookie, I went and told him just that.

When asked for his definition of a "hustling" ballplayer

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939

Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on earth.

Roberto Clemente
Pittsburgh Pirates
OF
HOF 1973

It's the finest cola drink I ever tasted.


In an ad for Red Rock Cola

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

I didn't want to win it by sneaking in the back door, but I did sneak in the back door. My pride told me to play, but my common sense told me not to. I went with my common sense.

Discussing his down-to-the-wire race with Robin Yount of the Brewers for the 1982 batting title, in which Wilson decided to sit out the final game of the season resulting in Wilson taking the title .3316 to Yount's .3307

Willie James Wilson
Kansas City Royals
OF

In box with left leg and all weight on it. Nothing on the front leg. WAIT. Stay back. Relax.

A note pinned up in Yaz's locker as noticed by a reporter a few days before he retired -- after almost 12,000 at-bats, Yaz still reminding himself how to hit

Carl Michael Yastrzemski
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1989; a.k.a., "Yaz"

I loved the game. I loved the competition, but I never enjoyed it. It was all hard work, all the time. I let the game dominate me. It even got harder as I got older, because I had more to prove.

In 1983, late in his 23rd and final summer as a MLB player

Carl Michael Yastrzemski
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1989; a.k.a., "Yaz"

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