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I'm never surprised by anything I do.

Upon striking out 17 batters in a World Series game, breaking the previous record of 15, when asked afterwards if he had been surprised at what he had just done

October 2, 1968
Robert "Bob" Gibson
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1981

I don't know where my speed came from. I wasn't any bigger or stronger-looking then than I am now. I always could throw hard, and once I saw I was able to get batters out, I figured I was crazy enough to play ball for a living. My father was a criminal lawyer in Kansas, and before that out in Ouray, Colorado, where I first played ball, and my brother went to law school and got a degree, but I didn't even graduate from high school. I ate and slept baseball all my life. (But) I don't think there was ever anybody faster than Walter. Walter Johnson was a great big sort of a pitcher, with hands that came clear down to his knees. Why, the way he threw the ball, the only reason anybody ever got even a foul off him was because everybody in the league knew he'd never come inside to a batter. Walter Johnson was a prince of men -- a gentleman first, last and always.

June, 1981 (at age 91)
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher

We used to make out that's a submarine. We'd make those pinging sounds, and if a ball came near us it was a depth charge, and we'd fire our torpedoes. If the ball bounced off the little screen, that was a direct hit, and we'd panic and then ask for damage reports.

Speaking about old Tiger Stadium's unusual bullpen configuration in which they were sunk below ground level in foul territory with a little screen above them to protect the occupants' heads from foul balls

July 1985
Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

The surface of the sun.

Describing what it feels like on the Globe Life Park playing field in the heat of the summer

Brandon Patrick McCarthy
Texas Rangers
Pitcher

Notice the break.

Announcing proudly when his drinking pals asked him to demonstrate his spitball whereupon he hurled a glass through the tavern window

Arthur Lawrence "Bugs" Raymond
New York Giants
Pitcher

Fractured, hell, the damned thing's broke!

After Cleveland outfielder Earl Averill drilled a pitch back into his foot during the 1937 All Star Game and a doctor announced gravely that the toe was fractured

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

My thoughtful stuff.

What he called his fastball -- it did give hitters plenty to think about

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

Wasn't that curious? As long as I was on the staff with him, in a sense competing with him, he wouldn't tell me that I was tipping my curve.

On pitcher Schoolboy Rowe who was Roberts' teammate for two years and, only upon Rowe's retirement from baseball, telling Roberts that he was giving his curveball away

After the 1949 season
Robin Evan Roberts
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher
HOF 1976

The fact that I am such a great pitcher overshadows my wonderful work with the willow when I step up to the plate.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

You ignorant ill-bred foreigners. If you don't like the way I'm doing things out there, why don't you just pack up and go back to your own countries.

In 1910
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender
Philadelphia Athletics
Pitcher

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