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64 quotes found searching on Team: Red Sox
He was a moody guy, a tantrum thrower like me. But when he punched a locker or something he always did it with his right hand. He was a careful tantrum thrower.
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966
I came home and told my mother about the money, and she said that was fine. "Who will you play for?" "Uh, the Texas Liquor House." If I had said Murder, Inc., I wouldn't have gotten a quicker refusal.
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966
The ball came sailing right toward my chin; normally a hitter can jerk his head back a fraction and the ball will buzz by. But this pitch seemed to follow me in. I know I didn't freeze. I definitely made a move to get out of the way of the ball. In fact, I jerked my head back so hard that my helmet flipped off just before impact. When the ball was about four feet from my head I knew it would get me. And I knew it would hurt because Hamilton was such a hard thrower. I was frightened. I threw my hands up in front of my face and saw the ball follow me back and hit me square on the left side of the head. As soon as it crunched into me, it felt as if the ball would go in one side of my head and come out the other; my legs gave way and I went down like a sack of potatoes. Just before everything went dark I saw the ball bounce straight down on home plate. It was the last thing I saw for several days.
Anthony Richard "Tony" Conigliaro
Boston Red Sox
RF
I saw it all happen, from beginning to end. But sometimes I still can't believe what I saw: this nineteen-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over -- a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since. I saw a man transformed from a human being into something pretty close to a god. If somebody had predicted that back on the Boston Red Sox in 1914, he would have been thrown into a lunatic asylum.
Harry Bartholomew Hooper
Boston Red Sox
OF
Hall of Fame, 1971
If it had been me out there, I'd have bitten Barnett's ear off. I'd have van Goghed him!
William Francis "Bill" Lee
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"
Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
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.
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
You could have knocked the bat out of my hand with a straw when I saw the Cardinals break out their tricky shift the first time I came up. I never expected it. The Cards had said they weren't going to try any funny defense on me. Boy, did they pull a fast one....I did get a kick out of one thing. I got a single to right field over the third baseman's head. Brother, that's one for the books. (And) I don't know what the reaction was among the Cardinals when I laid down that bunt...with the wind blowing in and nobody covering third base, I thought it was the only thing I could do. If the Cardinals wish to play me that way the rest of the Series, it's OK by me.
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966
A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.
Denton True "Cy" Young
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
My favorite pitch was a whistler right under the chin.
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 1937 ("Cy" = short for "Cyclone")
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