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The no-hitter is nice, but I need to keep an even keel. We still have a lot ahead. I'm going to call my mom, maybe brag a bit. But tomorrow, it's back to work.

On hurling his first no-hitter, during his eighth season in professional baseball

Gino Caruso
Schaumburg Flyers
Pitcher
independent Northern League

It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

After Pettitte's first win in The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, a 21 to 3 drubbing of the Rangers.

Andrew Eugene Pettitte
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Contributed by: Min

We're getting some of our personnel back. But you wonder if you brought in Henry Aaron and Lefty Grove if it would make a difference.

On his team's hapless 1999 season

Timothy Wayne "Tim" Belcher
Anaheim Angels
Pitcher

I don't even know how to cheat. If they think I'm cheating, I'm not very good at it. I have a 7.48 ERA against them.

After being accused by the Dodgers of throwing a spitter

Rick Reed
New York Mets
Pitcher

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

When asked if he has ever been thanked by all the multimillionaire ballplayers he spawned by his free agency trailblazing

James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1987

No, I never threw a spitball. Except when I had to get someone out really bad.

On throwing the spitball.

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1974

Contributed by: Nick Johnson

Doctors say ‘the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body’. That tells me only left-handers are in their right mind.

William Francis "Bill" Lee
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"

Contributed by: BoSoxGent

I know what the word 'media' means. It's plural for 'mediocre'.

On the linguistic origins of media

Thomas Jefferson Davis "Tommy" Bridges
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher
Contributed by: Nick Johnson

I'd like to think this award isn't solely based on wins and losses. There was a lot more to the season I had than wins and losses. Quite honestly I feel still this was the best year I had I my career.

After winning the 1999 NL Cy Young Award (17-9, 2.48 ERA)

November 15, 1999
Randall David "Randy" Johnson
Arizona Diamondbacks
Pitcher
a.k.a. Big Unit

I think too much on the mound sometimes, and I get brain cramps.

Robert Britt Burns
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

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