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Mike Flanagan - "I never could play in New York. The first time I ever came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors."
"You know you're having a bad game when the ground crew goes out and drags the warning track."

Claude Osteen - "I'm not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down."

Hank Aaron - "It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon at the golf course."

Richie Ashburn (on playing the '62 Mets) "I don't know what's going on, but I know I've never seen it before."

Early Wynn - "The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is breathe on a mirror and hope it fogs."

Mickey Lolich - "All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See? There's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer'."

Johnny Pesky - "When you win, you eat better, sleep better, and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollabrigida."

Stan Hack (his home town) - "It's so small, we don't even have a town drunk, everybody has to take a turn."