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My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

On losing first game of the 1999 World Series

Gregory Alan "Greg" Maddux
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
HOF 2014; a.k.a. "Mad Dog"

Contributed by: Mag

I didn't regret making the decision. I regretted having to make the decision. At the time, I was risking the use of my arm, the normal use of my arm.

On his retirement.

Sanford "Sandy" Koufax
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitcher
a.k.a., "The Left Arm of God"

Contributed by: Mag

The biggest honor is what happens on the field. Everything else that happens late in life is anticlimactic.

Sanford "Sandy" Koufax
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitcher
a.k.a., "The Left Arm of God"

Contributed by: Mag

I've never seen a team play a perfect World Series before, I think I just did.

On being swept by the Yankees in the 1999 World Series

John Andrew Smoltz
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
HOF 2015

Contributed by: Mag

Ninety percent of my salary I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other 10 percent I'll probably waste.

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw
New York Mets
Pitcher
Contributed by: Robert Ford

It's a combination of both God-given ability and also hard work. I worked my butt off. You would never imagine the things I do, the things I used to do. In the Dominican, I used to run at 10:30 at night in the dark. I wasn't allowed to run in the day. The coach said, 'You are too skinny to run. You need to build on weight.' So I ran in the dark field and there was a guard with a shotgun. I had to give him 20 bucks to let me run and be aware that I was there and not an intruder. Otherwise, in the dark of night you see somebody running and you shoot.

On what he feels enables him to throw at nearly 100 mph even though he only weighs 174 lbs.

Pedro Martinez
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

In 1971

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

Here's a kid right out of high school who goes on the major league mound and pitches as if he were a veteran. Catfish never showed a bit of fear or nervousness, anything that most rookies would show in that situation. He just picked up on major league baseball like it was another day back at his high school in Hertford, North Carolina.

On teammate and roommate Jim "Catfish" Hunter

Jackie Delane "Jack" Aker
Kansas City Athletics
Pitcher

I kind of laughed about it. Now it's starting to scare me.

Upon being traded to the Mets at age 42, after having just said that his wife has told him for years she wants him to pitch until he's 50 to keep him out of the house

December, 1999
Jesse Russell Orosco
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

Andrew Eugene Pettitte
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Contributed by: Leash1230@aol.com

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