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I did not call Johnson an idiot. Someone else did and I just agreed.

Claiming he was misquoted after being snubbed from an All-Star Game by Red Sox Manager Darrell Johnson

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

I was just 19 years old and had been in high school the year before. There I was facing Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews and Felipe Alou and Joe Torre and Rico Carty. It was very intimidating. A couple years prior to that, I'd had all their baseball cards and here I was on the mound facing them.

Recalling his first Major League appearance

Lynn Nolan "Nolan" Ryan
Texas Rangers
Pitcher
HOF 1999; a.k.a. "Ryan Express"

You'll hear in scouting reports: "This guy doesn't like being in close games." Everybody's been hammered at one time or another. You have a bad year and suddenly people think you can't perform in pressure situations. I don't think there is a pitcher in this league who doesn't want to be out there when the game's on the line.

Gerard Peter "Jerry" Dipoto
Colorado Rockies
Pitcher

Having learned accuracy in the delivery of the ball, the next thing is to master the curves. Some may have thought it was essential to know how to curve a ball before anything else. Experience, to my mind, teaches to the contrary. Any young player who has good control will become a successful curve pitcher long before the pitcher who is endeavoring to master both curves and control at the same time. The curve is merely an accessory to control. Witness how many good pitchers there were before the curved ball was heard of and how many there are now who employ straight balls as much as curves in their work.

In 1912

Denton True "Cy" Young
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Reflecting on playing through injuries during the 1960's

In the late 1990's

James Alan "Jim" Bouton
New York Yankees
Pitcher

Go get it.

While a member of the Blue Jays, to manager Cito Gaston when he came out to the mound to put in a relief pitcher and asked for the ball -- Wells did not want to be replaced and fired the ball into the outfield before storming back to the dugout

David Lee Wells
New York Yankees
Pitcher

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Having been born and raised in the U.S., explaining why he had pitched only five innings as a member of the Washington Senators

In 1943
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

He didn't just hit pitchers, he took away their dignity.

On Pittsburgh's slugging outfielder Willie Stargell

Donald Howard "Don" Sutton
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitcher
HOF 1998

They can talk about all the great Pirates -- and there have been a lot of them. But Maz represents the spirit of Pittsburgh and the Pirates as well or better than any of them. And what's really scary is that Maz set all those records not on a carpet (AstroTurf) but on the Forbes Field surface. A lot of visiting players wouldn't take infield at Forbes Field. Think about the numbers Maz would have put up if he'd have played on artificial turf and wouldn't have had all those bad hops. They might have had to put him into the Hall Of Fame five years before he retired.

On former teammate and ace second baseman Bill Mazeroski's ultimate induction into the Hall Of Fame in 2001, nearly thirty years after he retired

Stephen Robert "Steve" Blass
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where they'll get it from me.

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

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