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He didn't show what a rookie's supposed to show. You know, going crazy wild and throwing crap all over the place.
On the Braves' rookie pitcher Kevin Millwood (1999)
Leo Mazzone
Atlanta Braves Pitching Coach
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
I haven't missed a game in two and a half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys and I get sick again.
On the press
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
The only way you can do that is by breaking into the equipement room.
On Greg Luzinski's claims that he would steal 20 bases.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4200 hits.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
When you play this game 20 years, go to bat 10,000 times, and get 3,000 hits, you know what that means? You've gone 0 for 7,000.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
I see we're advertising casinos now. Gambling must be OK. (Commissioner Bud Selig) is going to be calling me any day now.
Upon seeing the Sun Cruz Casino billboard in left field at the Phillies spring training camp in Florida
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
When they smile, blood drips off their teeth.
On agents.
Ted Turner
Atlanta Braves Owner
I bought the Braves for two reasons. To get an autographed baseball without pleading for it and to get good seats.
Ted Turner
Atlanta Braves Owner
I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.
On Jackie Robinson.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves OF
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves OF
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves OF
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
When Yogi Berra told him he should hold the bat with the label facing him.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves OF
Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Milwaukee Braves OF
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball.
Peter Edward Rose
Cincinnati Reds OF - IF
There's no trying in baseball. You either go out and do it, or you don't.
Jesus Manuel Marcano "Manny" Trillo
Chicago Cubs IF
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie "Mr. Cub" Banks
Chicago Cubs SS
Contributed by: Robert Ford
I'm here to play 162. I'm scared to take a day off. The day I take off is the day I can go 5 for 5. Nobody can take me out of there. Nope. That's the way it's got to be.
Sammy Sosa Chicago Cubs
I focus on making that one pitch. That's what I tell myself, "One pitch." You can't worry about the next one. Even with a good hitter, he'll get out seven times out of ten. I want to make sure that this is one of those seven.
Describing his passion for protecting a one-run or two-run lead when one pitch can make all the difference
Tom "Flash" Gordon
Chicago Cubs Relief Pitcher
I'm always angry in the ninth inning, very angry. When the bullpen door opens and lets me out, I'm like a snorting bull you see in a rodeo. This game is over. This game is mine. Nothing is getting in my way.
Antonio Alfonseca
Florida Marlins Pitcher
It's amazing how what was three hours of great pitching can be ruined in the course of three to four minutes.
On losing Game 5 of the 2000 World Series to the Yankees on a single in the 9th inning.
Alois Terry "Al" Leiter
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