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When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

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

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I don't know much about guns. I'm not Charlton Heston.

When asked about a radar gun reading

James Francis "Jimy" Williams
Boston Red Sox
Manager

I truly believe that baseball is such a repetitive game. You play this game every day and people ask me how you get better at it. Well, you take a lot of ground balls and you take a lot of swings, over and over and over. Repetitious. I truly believe that I get into the routine because I expect to perform well every day. I'm going up against the best every day. There's no room to slack off. People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready -- prepared for the game. Where I can say to myself, "OK, I'm ready."

Nomar Garciaparra
Boston Red Sox
SS

He's as good a young player as anyone I've ever seen come into the big leagues. He's tremendous. One of the very best young hitters I ever saw. He's a smart kid and he knows all about hitting. He went to Georgia Tech where he was on the Dean's List, and when I finished talking to him I felt I was on the Dean's List of hitting because he knows plenty, he really does. I asked him my usual questions about all aspects of hitting. I like to get young hitters stirred up to find out what they really know. And he knew everything! He's really a brilliant kid.

On Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, 1999 AL Batting Champion

Spring, 2000
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966

You see him and you see the way it used to be. I remember hitting him ground balls in spring training a couple years ago and thinking to myself, "Geez, if this kid was around when I was playing, my butt would be on the bench, and I'd be doing what I'm doing today: watching in amazement at how good he is and how many things he can do.

On Red Sox SS Nomar Garciaparra

Early in the 2000 Season

John Michael "Johnny" Pesky
Boston Red Sox
IF

If you give me another chance, I'd like to be like Nomar (Garciaparra), a shortstop, and hit 30 homers every year instead of pitching. Pitching isn't easy.

Pedro Martinez
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher

Numbers are irrelevant to me. They don't mean anything. I never liked them. I don't need a stat to tell me if I had a good game.

After reaching a .400 batting average in mid-July during the 2000 season (Garciaparra finished the season with a .372 average to lead the league)

Nomar Garciaparra
Boston Red Sox
SS

I respect Roger Clemens and he was a great teammate but I don't particularly think that what he did was right. He probably wouldn't do it again. You know, you get in the heat of the battle and you do some pretty dumb things sometimes. I know I did.

On the broken bat incident in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series

William Joseph "Bill" Buckner
Boston Red Sox
1B

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")

He hacks. He's up there, he's definitely going to hit. Where's his comfort zone? A thrown baseball. He welcomes that challenge.

On Red Sox 3B Nomar Garciapara's batting prowess

Rick Down
Boston Red Sox
Hitting Coach

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