BROOKS ROBINSON

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.